AUSTRALASIAN BUTTER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 786, 31 March 1905, Page 4

AUSTRALASIAN BUTTER.

THE AMERICAN PROHIIJITIOX STATEMENT UY THE OA.IRY COJtMISSIONEK, W'ELIiIJiGTON, March 27. With" reference to the statement in tho cable messages that the United States has refused to allow Australasian "butter to enter the country, on the ground of its containing boracic acid, afd that as a result last month's consignment has been reshipped to Liverpool, Mr J. A. Kinsella, chief dairy commissioner, says that the cable message is not clear. In the first place, he told a I'ost representative, no New Zealand butter goes .to . the United States from our wharves', though a small quantity is sent to Vancouver. J( j s found iiec r ossary, in order (hat ow bu'iter may keep in good condition, to mkl a small amount of preservative, and boraoic acid up to half per cent, is allowed in Great Britain. The Agricultural Department of this colony tes'ts t"hc butter exports from time to time, and it has never found our 'Mutter 'manufacturers exceed that safo limit. Mr KinSella is- specially surprised that the United Slates- should exclude our pure butter,, seeing that they export huge quantities of margarine, "Tilled" cheese, ami similar products, ir-e does not know under what law America has taken the action reported, but he surmises that it must Ik; a recent enactment. As America is net one of our markets, however, the prohibition is no serious | matterj