CHEESE PRODUCTION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 25 October 1940, Page 2

CHEESE PRODUCTION

GOOD RESPONSE TO APPEAL FOR INCREASE SUPPLIES FOR BRITAIN [United Press Association) HAMILTON. 24th October. “It has been very praiseworthy indeed,” said the Minister of Agricultui'e, the Hon. W. Lee Martin, when intei'viewed in Hamilton to-day in regard to the response made by dairyfarmers to the Government’s l'equest for increased cheese production. “As it naturally involves considerable inconvenience to change from the supplying of cream for buttermaking to the supplying of milk for cheese, such action can be l'egai'ded as a genuine pati'iotic effoi't on the part of everyone who made the change voluntarily, as was done in the gi'eat I majority of cases. A lack of milk cans has 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 orders be issued in order to regularise the relations between parties to financial contracts. “I wish to pay 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 taqtful i work of the cheese instructors of the Dairy Division. What looked at first to be an unpleasant task has been carried out with a minimum of friction, and with the most commendable spirit of co-operation. “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 j New Zealand promised.”