ONE-TON CHEESES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18888, 22 December 1924, Page 9

ONE-TON CHEESES.

j LARGEST IN THE WORLD. PROCESSION IN LONDON. • -• UNUSUAL WEST END SPECTACLE. [from our own correspondent.] LONDON. Nov. 6. There was an unusual and interesting spectacle in the streets of the West End of London one afternoon this week. The monster New Zealand cheeses from the Ngaere Factory, which have been on exhibition at Wembley, were recently bought by various well-known ifinms at fancy prices. Messrs. John Barker and Company secured two, and when the packing up began on Monday, they sent one of their motor-lorries up to the New Zealand pavilion to claim their goods. Six assistants immaculately clothed in white went with the lorry, and in due course the cheeses were suitably mounted for transport. The two monsters were raised on platforms a foot in height. At front and back of the open lorry were groups of flowering shrubs. Around the base of the cheeses were other low pot plants. On both sides and raised well above the cheeses were two decorated planks which ran the whole length of the lorry. On each of these was the legend for all to see: "New Zealand Monster Cheeses from

Wembley going to Barker's." At the front of the van a square notice board announced the fact that the cheeses were the largest in the world. A notice board further back bore the inscription: "These cheeses weigh one ton each—224olbs." At each side of the driver's seat were' the New Zealand fl3g and the Union Jack.

The white-clad attendants took up suitable positions and the lorry drove slowly away from Wemblev to the West End of London and so through the principal streets. Thousands of people naturally had the benefit of the show before it came to its destination at Messrs. Barker's. The advertisement was an admirable one.