THE GRADING OF BUTTER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4933, 24 January 1895, Page 3

THE GRADING OF BUTTER.

MrE.M.Smith,M.H.R.,andMr Adlam, a dairy farmer and produce earner of New Plymouth, waited upon the Minister of Lands yesterday morning and presented him with a petition signed by 500 small dairy farmers, praying that the grading of the produce from factories should be suspended for this season, as they had already made arrangements for tho salo of their butter in the Homo market, and would be judicially affected by their butter being graded second-class. The deputation pointed out that tho butter was being Gold by a firm in Scotland and the fact of it being graded second-class would produce the impression that it was bad. Tho complaint was also made that there are no cool trucks, /or the transport of produce to Wolling. ton, only ventilator trucks, in which the temporature is not lowered by insulation, or cooled by ice or any other means. The storage accommodation at New Plymouth was also defective, the ordinary goods sheds beiug used for tho purpose instead of a cool chamber being provided, If the same facilities were provided there as were afforded in Wellington there would be no risk of the butter being spoilt, The Minister held out no hope of suspending the grading, which, as a matter of fact, is made compulsory by the Act, but it was arranged that the deputation should meet the grader at tho cool chambers this morning to see tho opening up of a shipment of butter by the Takapuna, in order to note the condition it is in, The deputation will have another interview with the Minister to-day after their meeting with the, grader.-MKi«M.