DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORT

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3445, 6 September 1926, Page 11

DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORT

GRADING REGULATIONS. The regulations under the Dairy Industry Act in regard to the grading of, and the use of the national brand on, butter and cheese for export, which have been made by Ordcr-in-Council, have been gazetted. It is provided that creamery butter and full-cream factory cheese for export shall be graded as finest, first-grade, second-grade, or third grade, according to the following standard of points; Finest, OS points and over: first grade, 90 points and under 9S points; second grade, -.80 points and under 90 points; third grade, under SO points. Upon each end of every package containing creamery butter or fullcroam factory choose for export, graded as finest or first grade, the national brand shall be placed. This brand shall not be placed on the other grades. The national brand consists of a design of a fern-leaf, bearing the words “New Zealand,” surrounded by two concentric circles, between which appear in the upper semi-circle the words “Now Zealand Produce.’’ and in the lower semicircle the words “Creamery Butter" or '‘Pull-cream Factory Cheese,” as the case may be. The name and registered number of the faetpry must also be shown.