OPENNESS IN CHEESE

Hawera Star, Volume L, 22 May 1930, Page 9

OPENNESS IN CHEESE

MASSEY COLLEGE DECISION

APPLICATION FOR RESEARCH GRANT. toy Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., A lay 22. At a, moating of the- Massey Agricultural Codt-be Council Professor Rkldtet reported that the dairy management committee' had ■decided to make an application to the Empire Marketing Board for a- grant to assist in research Work on openness in cheese, so that certain fundamental chemical and bacteriological work might bei undertaken.

The principal -reported that Mr. L. H. Collin son, of Palmerston North;, had donated a. cup for sports events, -and the Shell Oil Company ha.d donated a. £25 scholarship. The enrolment of -students for the second term totalled 206.

DISCUSSION WILT, DO GOOD. REASONS FOR RELEASING REPORT. WELLINGTON, May 21. The adverse reports about the quality of New Zealand cheese, part-icular-y during the current sea-son, bad caused some concern in Taranaki, said; Mb*. G. A. Duncan, of Haiwera-, secretary of th-e- Federation of the Taranaki Coop. Dairy Factories, to-day. Taranaki was particularly interested in the matter, because it was the- centre of cheese production in New Zealand and -supplied 36,000 tons of the total annual export -of 80,000 tons- or cheese. S-cmetime ago the l executive of thefederation had suggested to Mr. P. O. Veale that he -should prepare a l'eport u-p-on cheese- with particular reference t-a the question -of openness. A meeting had been held at which All*. Veiale’s report had been fully considered. Theunanimous decision was that the full report should be issued to the- Press with a- view to stimulating helpf-iil discussion of the problem that undou-bt-cd.lv existed in regard to- export cheese-. “It is not claimed,” said Air. Duncan. “that Air. Veale-’.s -report is the last word on the subject, or indeed-, that there is no room for difference of opinion in regard to the technical fide of the problem, but the executive of the federation, in releasing the report for publication, feels that good mustcome from n- free discussion of the various points made on it.”