Fiji Butter
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From Our Own Correspondent.
SUVA, July 5. success was gained by a sample T of butter entered by the Fiji Pas toral Company in February last in the 33rd annual conference dairy produce Exhibition fn Australia. In Class 1 (12 weeks!* stored butter for export, world championship) it scored 92 points out of a possible 100. The first four places were filled by Australian exhibits with scores ranging from 95 for first to 93£ for fourth.
This is an extremely creditable re sult, and Mr. Ernest Agate, manager of the Fiji Pastoral Co.’s factory at Navua, who prepared the butter for exhibition, has every reason to be proud of his success. It shows that Fiji butter can rank with the best produced in Aus tralia and New Zealand.
The 56 lb. case of butter exhibited was subsequently sold in Sydney at l/3id. a lb.
Mrs. Charlotte McGoon Wilkinsoni, wife of the late Ratu Wilkinsoni, a par amount chief of Fiji, died at Vagadaci, Levuka, in June, aged nearly 80. She was subsequently sold in Sydney at pioneer settlers of the Colony.
Mr. R. C. Kerkham, of the staff of Burns Philp (South Sea) Co., accom panied by Mrs. Kerkham, returned to Fiji from Samoa by the “Mariposa” in June.
Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Ellis returned to Suva from New Zealand by the June “Monterey”.