MILD CHEESE

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 October 1942, Page 2

MILD CHEESE

PRICE ORDER ISSUED WELLINGTON, October 22. The maximum retail price of mild cheese is fixed at 1/- per lb. by a price order issued to-night. Mild cheese, for the purpose of the order, is cheese up to four months old, excluding any form of fancy cheese, process cheese, or cheese paste. The order enables retailers who have to k pay their own freight from the nearest point of wholesale supply to pass on the additional cost in the retail price. The tribunal says that a comprehensive survey it has takefi indicates that on an average overall basis, the 1/- per lb. maximum would involve no increase in price to the public. On the other hand the operation of a generally even price would supersede the present variations in price from shop to shop and place to place. The tribunal adds that the retailers’ earlier margin of profit would remain virtually unchanged because of the wholesale prices it had also fixed, while the cheese manufacturing factories, after making reasonable provision for wholesale distributors’ commission, would receive a net return comparing favourably with today’s equivalent of the guaranteed price. The wholesale prices pei’ lb. fixed by the tribunal are: Not less than standard crate lots, crated: Exports, 9.1 d; mediums, 9ld. Not less than standard crate tots, uncrated: Exports 9Ad; mediums, 9«d. Less than standard crate lots: Exports, 9.}; medium, 9Jd.