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FACSIMILE OF REPORT CONCERNING FIRST SHIPMENT OF VICTORIAN BUTTER. 



gathering all the information available nn the subjert I was able to write 

 as follows : — 



'"The late Mr. D. Wilson, in giving evidence before the Royal Commission on 

 Vegetable Products on i8;h June, i886, referred to his modern dairy, established 

 t'.vo years before, which was fitted with an engine and separator. He also alluded 

 to nn attempt made some eighteen years previous by twenty-three dairymen and 

 himself to ship butter to London. ' The result, he 'said, was disastrous, for the 



