CHEESE IN STORE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3124, 30 June 1917, Page 10

CHEESE IN STORE

QUESTION IS THE HOUSE. In the House of Representatives yesterday iiitenioon, ih: B. A. AVright gaveMytico to ask the Minister of Agriculture j ii he will inform the Hquso whether the : clicoso in storo at' Wellington and else- J where, awaiting shipment to Great Bri- j tain, has beon takeu over by the lui- i perinl authorities, or. is awaiting deliv- | ery.f.o.U. Is lie aware that a quantity j of ohceso (said to consist of 33 orates) i that was ; in the Harbour Board's store at ; Wellington from January to May was i destroyed by the direction of an official belonging to liis Department? Will lie i state the reason for such destruction, ; and if, as alleged, it was unfit, for huinaa > consumption, will he explain what steps • aro being taken to safeguard the inter- , «sts of the British Government in regard j to oilier cheese held in store, which may , op liable to similar deterioration? Will j he further, in view of the increased cost j of cheese, to the consuming public of this .Dominion, and its practical disappearance from the tables of the wage-earn-ing class as an article of diet, and the fact jjiat so much cheese is accumulating, at the several ports of the Doinin- j iun with little or no prospect of its early ] shipment, advise the withdrawal of sufficient stocks from such stores and their placing on the Dominion markets, so as to afford the consumer locally a substantial reduction in the price now charged for that commodity?