§ DR. TANNERI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he is in receipt of a resolution forwarded by the Munster Dairy School Committee, calling attention to the adulteration of butter with margarine, and the frequent sales of margarine as butter; whether the Government will take any steps to secure margarine being dyed a distinctive colour to prevent further fraudulent 1570 dealing and injury to an important Irish industry; and whether several foreign Governments have adopted the system of dyeing margarine to prevent it being fraudulently sold as butter?
§ * MR. JACKSONI duly received the resolution referred to, but I am not aware of any intention on the part of the Government to propose legislation of the nature indicated. As to the latter part of the question, I may say that what I have seen indicates that the Acts of foreign Governments with regard to the colouring of margarine are rescinded, and that severe penalties are imposed on all who sell butter which is at all adulterated. I hope, however, that Irish butter will continue to be of such good quality that that will not be necessary.