THE WORLD'S BEST

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 50, 27 August 1925, Page 9

THE WORLD'S BEST

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER FAC'

TOBY'S SUCCESS,

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AUCKLAND, This Day.

Some interesting comments on the success of the RangiwahiaBuahine dairy factory in the world's butter championship comSetition were made yesterday by Mr. ■. J. Arnold, manager of the factory. News of the success, Mr. Arnold said, was received by telegram last Wednesday, and camo as a surprise. It was Ilia wife's birthday, and there was a wedding being celebrated iv llio small township. Tlio victory of the dairy factory in the world's championship seemed to be the very thing required to complete a day that would liro long in focal history. Mr. Arnold admitted that ho did not expect to secure first prize. IJo had scored 9Gi points, the winning total in the world's championship, in the Dominion competitions, but thought that higher points would be required to win in such an important event, and one that had attracted bo many overseas. entries. When ho was making the butter that was destined to achieve such distinction, ho considered it was about equal to the best he had produced. He then thought the first prize winner would require to grade 07 or 98 points. Apparently some of the overseas competitors had not tlio same, experience as tlio Dominion factories, of manufacturing butter that roquired to bo kept for a lengthy period. However, ho was convinced tlio Dominion could produce.butter equal to tho world's best, under any conditions.

Mr. Arnold lias been engaged in Ilia industry for seventeen yc;irs, and scored his first success in 'the competition fifteen years ago, when he was buttermaker In tho Kairanga dairy factory at Palmerston North. Ho has been manager of the Rangiwahia-Ruahino factory for four years, and during that period,has been a consistent winner at various winter shows of the North Island. Two years ago ho' won- tho Hawkes Bay-Wellington championship for butter at tho Waikato Winter Show, and tho same year won tlio Cunard Bowl, valued at 60 guineas, at tho Palmerston North Show, as Veil ns other prizes. To the practice, of entering for dairying competitions at winter shows ho attributes his success in tho world's competition. Tlio exporieuco of such contests and also the knowledge gained in grading competitions for factory managers, ho states, is invaluable. In addition tlio nssistanoo gained from officers of tlia Pniry Division is an important factor in cci nipping a, mauogoi 1 for wmpetitiTs. evftui*. ,