GUARDING QUALITY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20241, 8 May 1940, Page 10

GUARDING QUALITY

BUTTER AND CHEESE DOMINION PRODUCE APPEAL TO MAKERS (Pei- Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., this day. The need for the utmost care being taken by dairy factory managers In the manufacture of butter and cheese was emphasised by Professor W. Riddet, when sneaking to the annual conference of managers and iirst assistants assembled at the Dairy Research Institute yesterday. He was referring to the effect of the present hostilities on the supply of dairy produce to Great Britain by the shutting off of the Scandinavian imports of 200.000 tons of butter. He said that Britain would be asking New Zealand to supply some of that loss and it would be definitely to the Dominion's advantage to supply an article of superior quality, because one could not tell what the result might be if substitutes got a footing on the British market. Margarine to-day, he said was in some cases hardly to be distinguished from butter and the . result might very well be that if it got into everyday use if would be difficult to convince the people that it would be better to have butter. There also was a need for greater care in manufacture because of the conditions which the produce was likely to be subjected to by transport in war time and New Zealand butter and cheese must still be a good article when it reached the consumer.