AUSTRALIA: Ordeal by Butter

No man likes the taste of butter "straight" less than His Majesty's bantamweight, peppery Secretary of State for Dominions & Colonies, the Rt. Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery. None the less, Mr. Amery let a great deal of butter melt on his short, sharp tongue, the other day in London, tasting samples at the Australian Butter Show. Prizes had been offered by the Orient Steam— Navigation Co., Ltd. (whose packets ply to Australia) for "the best export butter"—one which would still be "best" after the 13,000-mile voyage to England. Each sample...

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