GRADING OF CREAM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20257, 17 May 1929, Page 15

GRADING OF CREAM.

' AMENDMENTS TO ACT. A change in the regulations relating to the system of compulsory cream grading at dairy factories will be brought into it [feci on June 1. It is an amendment, gazetted last December, to the Dairy Industry Act, with the object of profcibilting idairy companies from giving "finest quality for any cream during certain pionths. The amendment relates to clause 18, Sub-clause 1, to which has been added the following proviso: "Provided that during the months of June, July and 'August in each year in the North Island, and June, July, August and September in each year in the South Island, there shall be only two grades, known as 'first grade and 'second' grade, respectively, snd the definition of first-grade cream during such respective periods shall be cream of a quality above second grade as defined in clause 25." There has also been added a sub-clause to the effect that the owner of every such creamery shall, with inspect to each lot of cream graded, record the grade as assigned by the grader, and the duplicate copy of this docket or its original, initialled by, the' grader, and indicating the Aveight of ' cream graded, shall be forwarded to the cream supplier.