CHEESE EXPANSION

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 193, 16 August 1941, Page 8

CHEESE EXPANSION

OBJECTIVE OF 160,000 TOXS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Friday.' Reference was made to-day by the Director of the Dairy Division, Mr. W. M. Singleton, to a Press Association telegram from New Plymouth in which Mr. A. Hall, chairman of the Mangarei Co-operative Dairy Company, was reported to have said he had received from the director information to the effect that a survey had disclosed that the 160,000 tons of cheese required by Britain from New Zealand is assured. "The published statement is incorrect and misleading," said Mr. Singleton. "I have never made a statement of this nature; in fact, I have stressed, and still stress, the necessity of all producers and cheese factories exerting themselves to the limit in order that we might approximate such an output under normal climatic conditions. • "Certain cheese factories which are now being reorganised cannot get started at the commencement of the season, but these should be in a position either to make cheese throughout next winter or open up early in the spring of 1942. It is reasonable to expect that the objective of 160,000 tons should be reached in 1942-43."