RECIPE FOR ALL BLACKS.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 297, 18 July 1929, Page 6

RECIPE FOR ALL BLACKS.

A JAPANESE TEST. Food Value of Butter. Margarine as a Competitor. An interesting address was given shareholders of the Hinuera Dairy Company, at its annual meeting on -Thursday, by Mr. F. H. Leonard, of Auckland, who gave some inside in - formation in regard to the handling ■of Hinuera butter and tests made of at by Japanese experts.

Mr. Leonard stated he was worried about second grade butter. Five years ago 500 boxes could be sold ■every week in Auckland for cookery purposes. Now this trade was all gone, margarine having cut it out. Ip Canada the manufacture of margarine was prohibited. When he protested about this loss of trade to fhe Government, he was told to keep quiet as margarine was a side-line of "the freezing, works, and that the farmer was getting enough for his butter.

Later second-grade butter was sent to Honolulu. Tire Japanese ■were a clever people and put their best scientists on to analyse New Zealand butter, and they found it was the richest in vitamines in the •world. They believed that the fine physique of such as the All Blacks was due to the fact that New Zealand butter contained 14 per cent higher food value than Danish. He urged them to keep up their quality, as science would win out in the end, and New Zealand butter would then come into its own. He thought New Zealand butter had received fair , treatment in the Homeland, where the Hinuera brand was much sought after in the South and West of England and even in Scotland. It had a full flavour that was .nim'-aeiated In regard to selling onerations, he advised every farmer to watch the latest developments carefully. In bis opinion co-operation with Australia i would do New Zealand harm, as the Patterson scheme was disliked in Canada.' The main object, however, was to keep up the quality and he ’ tirged local, farmers to strive for an ; oven better article than they were Jiow producing (Applause).