OUR BUTTER AND MEAT IN LONDON.

Shannon News, 27 May 1924, Page 4

OUR BUTTER AND MEAT IN LONDON.

The following passage is a quotation from one of London’s best-known weekly newspapers, which often tells the truth in discursive fashion: — A New Zealander in that great country says: ‘‘And what’s the use of telling us the Empire ought to be selfsupporting. and that.we ought to buy. Empire-raised food? Where are wo to get it? Every week, at shop after Shop. I ask for New Zealand butter, and nearly always they have only got ■Danish’-or ‘English’ at 2/2 a pound or more, and that’s out of the question. And where can you get our lamb ! Thev all want to palm off. English produce or American stuff, and don’t seem to know that. California anti Chicago are not in the British Empire. At New Zealand House you may get samples but oven there they cannot tell mo what shops, if any, keep the things.

This testimony needs little or no comment, and can only be described as a rather mournful tribute to the present state of our Dominion food supply ati what is so fondly called the heart of the Empire.