CHEESE OUTPUT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 280, 25 October 1940, Page 6

CHEESE OUTPUT

MINISTER PLEASED. DAIRY FARMERS’ RESPONSE. Per Press Association. HAMILTON, Oct. 24. "It lias been very praiseworthy indeed,” said the Minister of Agriculture (Hon. W. Lee Martin) when interviewed in Hamilton to-day in regard to the response made by dairy farmers to the Government’s request for increased cheese production. “As it naturally involves considerable inconvenience to change from the supplying of cream for butter making to the supplying of milk for cheese, such action can be regarded as a genuine, patriotic effort on tho part ot everyone who made the change voluntarily, as was done in the great majority of cases. The lack of milk cans retarded matters somewhat, but by December some 1500 suppliers will have made the change, and of these the number who required orders was exactly 100, which figure includes 32 who requested that the orders be issued in order to regularise relations between parties to financial contracts. "I wish to pay a tribute to the great assistance given by members of the Dairy Board and local committees in organising the change-over, and also to the very competent and tactful work of the cheese instructors of the Dairy Division,” added the Minister. “What looked at first to be an unpleasant task has been carried out with a minimum of friction and with a most commendable spirit of co-operation. “The number of appeals against the orders was only 33. These appeals were dealt with on their merits after full inquiry, and an exception was granted where it was shown to be justified, added Mr Lee Martin. “With the help of the good season we are now experiencing there is a good prospect of our being able to supply to Great Britain at least the extra 15,000 tons of cheese which New Zealand has promised.”