CHEESE PROBLEMS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 221, 14 June 1930, Page 7

CHEESE PROBLEMS

Lord Bledisloe’s Advice QUALITY IMPORTANT Dominion Special Service. New Plymouth, June 13. Advice to the dairy industry was tendered by the Governor-General (Lord Bledisloe) as an old cheese-maker, who runs a cheese factory on his own estate, in the course of his reply to New Plymouth’s civic reception last night. Lord Bledisloe said he had real with interest the courageous report of Mr. P. O. Veale, the Hawera dairy scientist Lord Bledisloe stressed the need for uniformity, of high quality, and the remembrance of the fact that New Zealand was supplying the British housewife. “I wish to ask you not to be pessimistic,” said his Excellency. “Do not be afraid to over-produce and always market the best Much can be done in these times by the chemist, the biologist, and the microscopist to solve agricultural problems. Let us make New Zealand cheese the most dependable on the British market —a cheese that will always be given preference to Canadian, Dutch, and Danish. “I have not yet had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Veale, but when I do I am going to confide in him some few ideas I have on the openness of New Zealand cheese,” said Lord Bledisloe. Uniformity, he said, was even more important than quality, for it was because of that that the Danes had been such formidable competitors on the Home market. Dealing with the responsibility of side-lines such as pig raising, Lord Bledisloe said he was sympathetic. “Do not let us have all our eggs in one basket. Then if a depression falls over one industry we can balance on another.” TARANAKI CONFERENCE Improving the Quality By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hawera, June 13. Eighty directors of the Federation of Taranaki Dairy Factories met at Hawera this morning to discuss Mr P. O. Veale’s report on openness in cheese and problems at present confronting the industry. The conference was held as a preliminary to the National Dairy Association conference to be held at Hamilton. Mr. T. A. Wink presided. There was considerable discussion concerning the payment of a premium for the finest cheese and the following resolution was carried: “That this meeting affirms the principle of the payment of a premium on finest quality cheese, provided that recognition is given to the merits of pasteurised and unpasteurised cheese by grading according to market requirements; and further that a committee be set up to confer with the Dairy Division and with other cheese interests with a view to formulating a plan for the payment of a premium on finest grade cheese.” Practically unanimous support was given to a motion recommending the institution of compulsory milk grading with differential payment according to grade. When a resolution to the effect that no company would take another company’s supplies in the event of the milk being unsatisfactory was put to the meeting, it received unanimous support. An agreement to that effect is to be made by the federated factories.