GOLDEN BUTTER

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2305, 6 September 1929, Page 5

GOLDEN BUTTER

CONFERENCE OF EXPERTS

QUALITY STANDS HIGH Says Thursday’s Star: Just how keen the dairy factory managers :of the Auckland province are to make, their butter and dljeese of the prize variety was seen af, the Government grading stores on the King s Wharf.- Fifty representative of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Dairy Factory Managers’ • Association had met ■ for ' their spring refresher. Rich exhibits °f hutter and new season’s cheese were examined! and tested with a. thoroughnss that suggested a determination to maintain the standard of the export produce, and, if possible, to raise it higher. The conference would lijfrve served as. an effective reply,to the recent criticisms of Tooly Street merchants, that New Zealand managers must, keep a watchful eye upon the quality of thqir butfer and cheese. To t,he satisfaction of those present, Mr'77 C. Wood, dairy produce grader in charge of flje stores, said the quality was well up to the standard of last spring.

Butter exported from Auckland for the year ended July 31, it was stated, amounted to 2,127,088 boxes, representing a value of £8,50(1, 000; and the cheese export was 183,412 crates, valued at £1,000,000. Auckland’s' supremacy as the premier dairy province of New Zealand was fully established by the quoted figures. The butter represented 60 per cent, of the total for the Dominion, and the butter and cheese together, 40 per cent..