PROCESSED CHEESE

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25390, 13 January 1948, Page 8

PROCESSED CHEESE

PENINSULA. REPRESENTATIVE TO ATTEND CONFERENCE A meeting of representatives of Banks Peninsula dairy companies, at a recent meeting at Duvauchelle decided to send a delegate to Wellington on February 4 to attend a conference called by the New Zealand Dairy Board to consider the manufacture of processed cheese. IV F. G. Harris secretary of the Banks Peninsula Dairy Companies’ Association, will represent the district at the conference. In a letter to the association, the secretary of the Dairy Board (Mr C. H. Courtney) said that numerous replies had been received from dairy companies interested in proposals for placing the processing of cheese on a cooperative basis that would be satisfactory to the dairy industry. The conference in Wellington on February 4 would discuss what was being done in New Zealand at present about this side of the industry, and its future possibilities of local and export markets. Representatives of the Dairy Products Marketing Commission would attend the conference. The chairman of the meeting at Duvauchelle (Mr S. J. Vogan) said the Peninsula dairy companies should keep in touch with the proposals. The Peninsula and South Canterbury dairy companies had discussed + v e proposals for the manufacture of processed cheese last year, but they had been advised at that time by the Minister of Agriculture and the Dairy Board that as an agreement had been reached ” ith the British authorities to allow firms in Britain processing cheese to continue manufacture after they had been restricted during the war. export of processed cheese could not be allowed. Mr F. G. Harris said at present no export of processed cheese was allowed. though there were several brands on the local market. A factory manufacturing processed cheese would require an output of 2000 tons, and if Banks Peninsula and South Canterbury combined, such a factory could be established in Canterbury. He understood the machinery for such a factory in Canterbury would cost about £4OOO and all the cheese manufactured in the area would go to the one centre to be made into processed cheese. The meeting agreed with Mr W. E. Brown (Takamatua Dairy Company) that there were great possibilities in the manufacture of processed cheese in Canterbury on a co-operative basis, with all the dairy companies in South Canterbury and the Peninsula area supplying a central factory.