DAIRYING RECORD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 13 November 1937, Page 4

DAIRYING RECORD

!• SUCCESS OF RAI VALLEY

i i. •j CHEESE PRODUCTION j { TOP OF NEW ZEALAND LISTS ’ 1 Advice has been received by the 1 Rai Valley Dairy Company that their -1 cheese topped the grading list for the I whole of the South Island, Wellington r; district, and was second for all New ■ Zealand for the season recently ended. ) it will be interesting perhaps to ' record just how the grading results are ascertained. ‘All cheese and but* ' ter manufactured in New Zealand fo. ’ export is graded for quality ltnmedi- : at Jy it is received in the grading stores. 1 At the end of the season the average ■ grade of all cheese received from each II factory is ascertained. As probably 90 >! per cent, of the cheese produced is ! j exported,- it follows that the factory I with the highest average grade can - truly be said to have produced the best j quality cheese in the country j In addition to the above, Rai Val- ’ ! Icy has bad a very successful year at | various shows; the results are as fob 1 1 lows:— ’ Waikato show: First prize for loaf 1 cheese open lo ail New Zealand factories, second prize for export cheese 1 open to all New Zealand factories, ’ first South Island championship trophy. Dominion Dairy and South Tara- ' naki show at Hawera: Winner Luns- ‘ dale Cup, value 100 guineas, open to ' all New Zealand, winner N.Z. Ren- | net Co. Cup, open to all New Zea--1 land, first prize for members NZ. Dairy Managers’ Association class, : second prize white export cheese oj cn to all New Zealand. New Plymouth winter show: First • prize for most points in show, open, first prize Aluminium Plant and Vessei Co. prize, second prize coloured ex- ’ port cheese, open to all New Zealand, 3 second prize Hansen’s prize, expert cheese, open. National dairy show: South Island gold medal for .best cheese made in * South Island, first prize for J. B. Mac--1 Ewan and Company’s trophy, third prize New Zealand championship. ’ Otago winter show: Second for Bry--5 done Memorial Shield, open to all New ■ Zealand. i