THE BUTTER BILL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 18 April 1907, Page 3

THE BUTTER BILL.

a I't'MS IIAIN' PROVISIONS. I.llHllllll, .March I. The Libt'i'ul tiovcrniuent lias Mimed out their promise to inl reduce a Hut lev Hill. Jt was issued a few days ago, and ! its provisions will uo doubt iuteve.-.l ; shippers ill Australia and New Zealand, though it is not quite so drastic a measure ns some of the Colonial lYodiue Commissioners called iqion to give evidence before the Royal Commission last year desired to see put iu force. The In clauses provide for: (1) Registration of factories and con signments. (2) Inspection of factories. (3) Prohibition of adulterants in butter factories. (4) Limit of misture in butter margarine, and butter substitutes. (5) Provisions to the iuiportnlii :i of butter, marfiariiie, butter substitute-, and imitation butters.

(li) Herniations as to curd in butler. (7) Harking' of wrappers in which margarine is sold. (8) Uegulatiou of sail' of butter miytui'i'S ami imitation butters. (!>) Penalties lor offences. (10) Short title, tonsivu-tion and commencement. The text of the Kill discloses no intention on tiie part of the Slat - to interfere with mixing, which is :in old-e I ihlished practice, and just as unolijecii. liable as the blending'of leas or whiskies so long as it is surrounded with safeguards, and as long as butler is blended with butler. Clause 4 penalises the occupier of any butler factory in which adulterants tire found, and should such substance be discovered an offence under Ihe Act is committed. Coupled with drastic powers given to inspectors in clauses 1 and ■>. this should cause the •■faking" of colonial butter at least in this eountrv to become a lost art. .Alilk-blended butler will not be interfered with, and in fact, the Dill is by no means unduly hard upon the makers of margarine, milk-blended butter, and imitation butter. But it imposes severe restrictions in the selling of these articles. The. limit of moisture in butter is now definitely fixed at 10 per cent., with no exception in favor of Irish lirkin butter