NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 275, 30 April 1915, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

A LETTER OF APPREOaTIOX. Messrs Ha trick ;iml Co. are in receipt' of the following letter from the principal of a firm in Glasgow which is in a very large way of business:— When in Argyllshire last week, where I have a small dairy for the supply of my own house, 1 was much struck with the quality of the butter on the table, anil as it was so superior to what we hail been getting, I asked was it our own or which of the farmers it was bought from. I was, to my surprise, told that our own dairy was not making any'butter just now, and that this was New Zealand butter. I said it was tilt best butter I had ever tasted, and that for the future they could give our own dairy butter to the servants' hall—in Miy case tlicy always get tiie best and We upstairs get their leavings—but in future only this Xew Zealand butter was to be used upstairs. I looked up the wholesale price and found that it is priced the same as Bani ish butter, which is a very good criterion and high standard. Our liome buttermakers make the butter so hard that it will hardly spread, and it lias a peculiar taste. Yours is so very good that I am writing you and some other firms with whom we deal in New Zealand to congratulate you on the excellent quality. There is a great future for your butter if you will only keep the quality up. lam going to give it a boom In the papers in a few days, and am going to write my experience in order to warm up our home farmers to improve their make, a; some of it is abominably bad.

I do not know from what part of New Zealand the butter comes, or whether your district produces butter or not, but I thought that in a distant part of the lunpire you would like to know how much your butter is appreciated here, and I am sure that, coining from your country, it will have a big sale and take bold of the market in preference to Banish and other butters which come from i countries which at the present moment, 1 am sorry to are say, are trading largely with the enemy, and have their leanings towards the enemy. From this point alone New Zealand butter, coming from a part of our Empire, is worthy of support quite apart from the most excellent quality. I think it is really the best butter I have ever tasted.