DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19419, 30 August 1926, Page 12

DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORT.

GRADING REGULATIONS, USE OF NATIONAL BRAND. ' Tho regulations under the Dairy Industry Act in regard to th<a grading of,and tho use of the national brand on, butter -anti cheese for export/ w bich have been made by Order-in-.Ceuncil, are gazetted. It is provided, that creamery butter arid full-cream factory cheese-for export shall be graded as finest, firstgrade/ second-grade, or third-grado, according to the : following standard of points; Finest, 93 points and over; first grade, 90 points and under 93 points;, second grade, 80 points and under 90 points;.third grade, under 80 points. Upon each end of every package containing creamery butter or full-cream factory, cheese for export, .graded as finest or first grade,' the national brand shall be placed. This brand shall not be placid , on'the other grades. The national brand consists of a design of i fern-leaf,, bearing, the words' **New Zealand," surrounded by two concentric circles, between which appear in the upper semicircle words "NeW Zealand Produce/' and in the lower semi-circle the words "Creamery Butter" or "Fullareata Factory Cheese," as the case may be, The name and registered number of the factory must also be shown.