CHEESE FACTORIES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 107, 15 February 1935, Page 3

CHEESE FACTORIES.

ZONING SYSTEM RECOMMENDED. (Per Press Association). PALMERSTON N.., February 14. The Cheese Committee of the Jvlana-watu-West Coast Dairy Companies Association passed the following resolution:—“That cheese factory representatives consider that tho zoning or factory areas is of far more importance to the industry than the matter or farm dairy instruction. Cheese factories can themselves watch the quality of milk delivered at factories now that grading of milk is compulsory, resulting in suppliers taking more care m their work. *The committee consider that if some system of zoning milk supply to cheese factories is not undei - taken the manufacture of cheese in this country is likely rapidly to diminish, with a corresponding in* crease in the manufacture of butter. They consider it an undisputed fact that while the manufacture of cheese throughout the world is diminishing the manufacture of butter is increasing, and that this country, being eminently suitable, for the manufacture of cheese, it is a suicidal policy for cheese factories, the majority of which must obviously he small, to be closed up through the fact of; large butter factories competing to attract cheese suppliers by various methods, thus further increasing the manufacture of butter with a. corresponding decrease in the manufacture of cheese.’*’