Margarine

Eventual Place Of

OINCE the high price of buttei beginning to affect the budget the average family in Australia j New Zealand, there has been so murmuring against the reluctance bureaucracy to make available m margarine—the “poor man’s butt< This palatable and healthy prod of the coconut is an important f( in many countries; but the poli ians of Australia and NZ, wooing votes of dairymen, have gener; discouraged its use, so as to as the sale of butter.

On August 27, Melbourne y sharply criticised the Victorian G ernment for refusing a larger qu of margarine for that State. It poin out that the New South Wales qu of margarine has been doubled, j that of Queensland trebled, beca of scarcer and dearer butter, j says it is completely wrong that \ torians should be denied larger s plies of the “supplementary” fo stuff.

The New Zealand Grocers’ . view says that, although NZ bul in Fiji costs from 4/- to 57pound, and margarine only 2/-, latter is not displacing butter, T is to be expected, in the circi stances of Fiji. The position wo be very different in NZ where m garine would be much more wid used for culinary purposes, iTit w available.

It seems certain that, as world’s shortage of food increa: the demand for margarine will gr< even in butter producing countr