SUPERIORITY OF BUTTER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 140, 14 May 1940, Page 6

SUPERIORITY OF BUTTER.

NEED FOR PROPAGANDA. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND 1 , Alay 13.. Possible dangers to New Zealand’s dairying industry from the competition of margarine in Britain were discussed by the Alinister of Alarketing, (Hon W. Nash), during an address to-night Tlie market for primary products was becoming more and more restricted, the Minister said, and, with regard to dairy produce, there was danger from competition. Would people be willing, he asked, to pay Is 4d a pound or more for butter if they eoukl get margarine at about half that price and if margarine were as good as butter? Personally he believed, and he had heard scientists say it, that there was a content in butter from the sun-pfo-duced grass that gave fnore nutrition to a child than came from other fats, but there were some scientists at home now saying that, if they could get margarine, it was not worth while risking the life of a single sailor to import butter. “If that did ultimately prove to he true you can see what kind of crisis we would have to face in this country,” Air Nash said. “I do not think we have to face it yet, but we have to face putting out some kind of propaganda to encourage people to use butter after we have proved that butter is better than other things from the point of view of nutrition.”