BUTTER EXPORT TRADE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4639, 3 February 1894, Page 3

BUTTER EXPORT TRADE.

Tho N.Z, Government expert in London for tbe dairy and produce trade gins the following information which our dairy farmers would do well to remember; —One of the best factories in Australia undertook to supply weekly a London firm with two hundred to three hundred boxes of the finest butter. Knowing the high class of batter made at tbe Australian faotory, the London firm registered a eptoiul brand for it, and spoke very highly to the wholesale dealer of tbe quality of tbe butter they had persuaded bim to take in place of Danish. The fine consignment was Bold 11 to arrive" At 1265, which waMnore than the official price for finest Victorian butters. The baiter arrived in tbe "Ballarat," but tbe wholesale dealer refused to accept delivery on the ground that it was not equal to tbe finest yiqtorian, I was asked |o carefully examine t|ie consignment, and after a thorough examination it fopd to be very uneven in quality, scarcely any two boxes alike. Nearly every box was " marbled," some but slightly, others very distinctly. Besides this, some of the butter bad a "tallowy" flavour; and altogether I could not report that it was equal to tbe finest colonial butter. How such an occurrence could have happened is inexplicable, for 1 know the Australian factory baa for some years sent butter to London wliiob is everywhere recognised as being the finest quality. A second consignment by another ship is 'said also to lie un'sutjafaptory, Tbe rosult of this inferior butter being forwarded, instead of the quality according to contract, ha? done much to barm tho Australian trade,. The London firm are my much annoyed, and have abandoned tbe speoial brand, as its reputation has been spoilt, and besides are very dubious about again extending their enterprise in colonial butter when they meet with euch discouraging treatment. The wholesale dealer baa refused to replace hit Danish by any more arrangements for Australian, and thus the colony oon cerned loies a market that might have developed very considerably. It is quite possible tbe Australian butterfactory proprietor was not aware that the butter he was consigning was not equal to his beat; but'be shoujd taken 'greater, oka that his jot

ouatomer received goods of the quality for which he • coniraoied. I; have e related this inoidsnt. because; there fl appears to be'a belief among, some y colonists that the London agent will r rest content so long as. tbe butter if boars a brand of a highrepu- » tation; This is a great delusion ; 3 nowhere iB the quality of butter more ; closely sorutlniaed than in London,