BUTTER-MAKERS’ LAURELS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 January 1925, Page 4

BUTTER-MAKERS’ LAURELS.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS. STAR CLASSES AT AUCKLAND. Classes for the butter championship of the world will be included in the schedule for the Auckland Winter Exhibition this year. The .prizes will be £SO, £3O, and £2O, a gold medal being added in each case. Mr. P. J. Carroll, supervisor of dairy export for Australia, has written congratulating -the committee on the generous prizes offered in the dairy sections, fie is taking steps to secui'e entries from Australian dairy factories for the world’s butter championship. The chief Government grader at Auckland, Mr. A. A. Thornton, said at a recent meeting that all the butterproducing countries —the Argentine, Denmark, South Africa, England, Australia, Fiji, Canada, and the "United States—would probably be competing. Great interest was already being shown in the class in the Dominion. On his motion it was resolved to send particulars of-the competition to all the leading dairy magazines in the world. On the recommendation of the Dairy Committee it was decided that, arrangements he made with the New Zealand IQniry Association to manufacture two monster cheeses, and that permission of the Government he asked to place £3O in silver in cheese which will lie sold at the exhibition and in the eity in small lots. The total prize money for the dairv section amounts to £360.