CHEESE AND BUTTER.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 112, 17 June 1914, Page 11

CHEESE AND BUTTER.

EXPORTS, FOUR MILLIONS. ii - ■ • Press Association. ]>jvIiMERSTON. NORTH, June 16. H lPhe annual meeting of the National ■v Dairy Association was held to-day. The- chairman (Mr A. Morton), in ' the' adoption of the report and , said that for the first in, the-history of the industry the • : export of cheese had exceeded that of butter, being £2,195,000, as compared •with £2,140,000:. for butter. This inn «resse s was : asitopishing; in view . of the i:;£aefr >that-tea'years ago the export , was but- vojf * the .value -of - £206,000. Cheese bad this in its favour, that up to the present no .substance had been dis- , covered thaf could be used as a substatute, as in th& case of margarine for 'After referring to the late good season, hd baidthatit was a fact that the quality of the butter had not been up to its. former standard. ; thp ( ught, Fas, . due to the., in- ' ift'lidjne'separating. . It rendered ' more urgent the adoption of a. system ©f a payment for milk according to quality. The system was all the more necessary for (eheese, as only the best quality of ! milk was good for,its production, and .in respect to'butter the increase of the manufacture of mar-

garine, which was a competitor to , second-classgutter, showed clearly that r isoine- 'remedy m,ust be adopted to raise i&e of the quality. ' Befeyence was made to the lowering ■^ecs'upon prices on the Home market caused by dumping the produce there after the strike.

Another point touched upon was the better handling of cheese. The year bad been a good one for the association, and its position is much better. Some comments were made by members oa the irregularity of the arrival of shipments 'at Home. The chairman said that the shipping companies had undertaken to give as nearly as possible weekly: departures and weekly atrivalq, but a disarrangement had been caused last year by the strike. Messrs A. Macfarlane (Pahiatua) faxd W. Fisher (Carterton) were reelected, directors, and Mr C. D. Morton . Auditor. J..... ... , V II: "