EXPORT OF CHEESE,

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13767, 4 June 1908, Page 5

EXPORT OF CHEESE,

DISCUSSION AT DUNEDIN. [by TELEGRAPH.— association - .] DuKEDIK, Wednesday. The annual meeting of the National Dairy Association (South Island) was held to-day. Mr. Baron (Gore) moved, "That ho secondgrade marks be placed on cheese for export." Instances were quoted of cases where cheese graded as second grade, had realised a higher price than first grade in. the same shipment Mr. Singleton explained that this fact was due to the condition of the cheese market at Home. At the request of the meeting Mr. Singleton 6poke on. the state of cheese at the time of shipment. He said the North Island factories were very careful, but for the last six or seven years South Island cheese did not present such a, satisfactory appearance. There was too much handling to enable cheese to go away at its best. Mr. Scott, in endorsing Mr. Singleton's remarks, said the methods of' handling transhipments at Wellington were quite obsolete. .., i After Mr. Singleton's- explanation, the motion was withdrawn. It wae decided to ask the Government to inquire into the question of the temperature of chambers carrying cheese in ocean steamers; and to provide a thermograph, to be inspected before the vessel leaves New Zealand, and read and recorded by the dairy expert at' Home. Mr. Singleton said the question was unavailing. Mr. James Milne was re-elected president.