DETERIORATION OF N.Z. CHEESE

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28481, 10 January 1958, Page 20

DETERIORATION OF N.Z. CHEESE

Lower Price Reached

(Netq Zealand Press Association; AUCKLAND, January 9. A large quantity of New Zealand cheese which deteriorated because it was kept in store too long has been sold in London at greatly reduced prices. This information is contained in the December 28 issue of the “Public * Ledger,” an old-established mercantile journal published in London. The “Public Ledger” states that with a stock of about 100.000 crates in Britain, some of it very old, the New Zealand Dairy Products Marketing Commission has taken a realistic view by liquidating parcels of the substandard cheese cheaply.

Asked today to comment, the chairman of the Dary Products Marketing Commission, Mr P. B. Marshall, of Wellington, said that some of the New Zealand stock was remaining in store overlong because of terrific competition in the United Kingdom, where an enormous volume of cheese was produced. The main trouble with the cheese which had been kept in store longest was a tallowy discolouration. Ths substandard cheese was being disposed of to processors at a lower price than good cheese, which, because of the competition, was fetching only, Is 4d to Is fid a pound across the grocery counters in Britain. Mr Marshall said the Commission was at present receiving 130 s a hundredweight for good cheese, slightly less than Is 2d a pound.