MILK FOR CHEESE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 121, 15 February 1935, Page 3

MILK FOR CHEESE

Importance of Zoning COMPANIES’ RESOLUTION By Telegraph.— Press Association. Palmerston North, February 14. The cheese committee of the Manaivatu and West Coast Dairy Companies’ Association passed the following resolution:—“That the cheese factory representatives consider that the zoning of factory areas is of far more importance to the industry than the matter of farm dairy instruction. Cheese factories can themselves watch the quality of milk delivered at factories now that the grading of milk is compulsory, resulting in suppliers taking more care in their work. The committee considers that if some system of zoning the milk supply of cheese factories is not undertaken the manufacture of cheese in this county is likely to diminish rapidly with a corresponding increase in the manufacture of butter. They consider it an undisputed fact that while the manufacture of cheese throughout the world is diminishing, the manufacture of butter is increasing, and that, this country being eminently suitable for the manufacture of cheese, it is a suicidal policy for cheese factories, the majority of which must obviously be small, to be closed up through the fact of large butter factories competing to attract cheese, suppliers by various methods, thus further’increasing the manufacture of butter with a corresponding decrease in the manufacture of cheese.”