CHESHIRE CHEESE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 80, 16 March 1933, Page 11

CHESHIRE CHEESE

PLIGHT OF INDUSTRY, NEW ZEALAND COMPETITION. A serious situation has arisen in. the Cheshire cheese industry, states tho London “Times.” The trade has been unsatisfactory since November. At the leading fairs makers have refused the impossibly low prices offered—sd per lb. in some cases when the price was 1/1 at the corresponding fair last year —and have taken the cheese home to their farms. Three primary causes are advanced: The unemployment, in Lancashire and Yorkshire and other northern counties, competition from cheap New Zealand cheese and the mild weather which induced over-production in the last few months of the old year. New Zealand cheese is sold over the counter at 5Jd to 7d per lb. Against this prico the Cheshire cheesemaker cannot compete. It is suggested that a quota system with respect to the cheese imported from the colonies should be adopted, in preference to the free market which is now given to the colonies. With regard to the mild open weather, cows have given abnormal yields and an unusual amount of milk has ’gone to cheese-making.