BUTTER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 213, 14 September 1901, Page 2

BUTTER.

Mr. W. K. Hewitt writes to the Patea Press :—Before we left Australia we had taken in at the different p irts some 600 tons of butter made up in the usual 501b boxes, and as I used to lie up against the side of the steamer and see box after box put into the hold, I used to wonder to myself," Now, how will this Australian butter compare with the New Zealand butter when it gets into the London market ? Well, I resolved in my own small way to find out all I could about New Zealand butter as I would find it in the H me J markets. The inquiries were not in London or any of the English towns, but in Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen, all very important centres, and v-ry considerable cities. In all these places I found much encouragement, and I signs on all sides that New Zealand butter is now in the very front rank of all imported butter. Butter comes into the Home market from France, Finland, jDenrmuk, Norway, Sweden, Canada, United States of America, [ Argentine, Australia, and, as you all know, New Zealand. The quantity of jimportod butter is simply enormous, ! but the market is bote, and could, [ roughly spooking, consumo double what, iat present comes in. I was also led to believe that) Danish butter took premier place, and with a few it d ics, but the largest manufacturing bakers I have mot have candidly told me that for their purposes lib of Now Zealand butter is worth to ilitm of Danish butter. The New Zealand has more substance in it, and can be fully relied upon. Of course, lam speaking of butter of the very highest grade. Speaking from experience, I know that many bnttors fail just at tbo critical period of manipulation, but this is rare with the New Zoaland article, and this is what takes the fancy of the Home manuf Ncturer. A fact that will always tell in favour of New Zealand buttor is that the butter comes into tbe market just at the right time. Right up to the end of April it must find a foremost place in the market if the standard is kept up. By May other butters are coming into tbo matke f , and, though not so good, tend to lower the price, but May, and the nest few following months, is, of course, just the time when the New Zealand supply foils oil". Just before the season closed the merchants in Aberdeen were buying at 103s per cwt., and selling at .110s, or a profit of 7a per cwt. What did New Zealand a deal cf harm 10 to 12 years ago was a quantity of bad butter coming Home. The Home public are slow to forget a thing like that, and I gay to you all sow that a «hip-

ment of bad butter from New Zealand coming into the market just now would do more harm to New Zealand i than you can possibly imagine. Soch ,a contingency is, however, out of the ' question when we consider the means luscd to prevent such a thing occurring. You have now got the start in the country, and no power on earth can stop ITew Zealand butter from finding its way right to the vry front ranks of the butters of the world. Have up-to-Idate managers, and move with the U'naes.