N.Z. BUTTER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 120, 18 June 1909, Page 2

N.Z. BUTTER.

ITS ItEil'l'TATlOX EXDAXOJERED. EXCESSIVE MOISTURE, By Telegraph,—Press Association. Auckland, Last Xight. Unless tlic manufacturers of butter in New Zealand an; content to use less creek water in the butter, there is a risk of her reputation for quality of dairy produce being entirely lost. This is the opinion of .Mr. J. F. Pearson, managing director o.f Pearson and Itut* t6r, of Manchester and Liverpool, who IS at present 011 a visit to Aueklaml. ill. learsbn referred to a cablegram published the other*day which stated lluit tlit; London Chamber of Commerce intended urging the Kew Zealand and Australian Governments .to strictly limit the percentage of moisture in butter, lie said there had been a irood deal of coinjilaint in England regarding tke deterioration in the quality 0 f New Zeahind butter. While complaints were nearly always more plentiful when the market was bad, unfortunately there bad been real ground for complaint lately, owing to the unfortunate tendency ot buttermakers to increase the percentage of moisture. This: tendency was not only going to do harm to factories interested but to the industry as a who.e. I 'l'': commons'on the Home market had changed lately, as not only did the blenders, who were one of the most important class's of buyers, tost butter lor moisture, but the better class of retailers ntsr, regularly tested for their own protection in case they were proceeded against under the Knglish law. ihe cflcct of this was' that buyers avoided _ those brands of butter found to persistently approach the dan»er limit in respect of moisture. B