WHAT PRICE CHEESE?
Prices for butjter obscure those of cEteese. True the age and make of cheese vary, so that its price is likely to vary much too. However, it has been selling at Is 2d to Is 3d for a good average cheese ; but it will not for much longer be offered retail at those prices. For medium size cheese, made for the local trade, Is 2^d is asked by factories doing this business. That will mean Is 6d per pound. In happier pre-war days lOd was a fair price, a little more, perhaps, for carefully stored, matured chee3e. The public has protection in regard to moisture-content and specified weight and description of butter. Cheese, liowever, seems to have escaped the Food and Drugs Act and other legislation protecting the New Zealand consumer. The export trade is very carefully looked after, the Government grading scrupulously carried out, so that grade notes are treated with respect comparable to that paid..to bank notes. On them and on them alone millions of pounds' worth of business is done. But the interests of the New Zealand consumer of cheese, somehow, have not received the same careful attention as is given to those of the British or other overseas consumers with whom New Zealand cheese has a justly deserved high reputation.
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 90, 13 October 1920, Page 7
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217WHAT PRICE CHEESE? Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 90, 13 October 1920, Page 7
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