CHEESE OBJECTIVE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24050, 22 August 1941, Page 3

CHEESE OBJECTIVE

STATEMENT EXPLAINED [by TELKGHAPH —Pit ESS association] NEW PLYMOUTH, Thursday An explanation of the reason for the statement that he had been told by the Director of the Dairy Division, Mr. fciiigleion, that 160.0U0 tuns of cheese ■was assured for the present season, was made, by the chairman of the Mangorei Dairy Company, Mr. A. Hall. Mr. Hall, said that when two officers of the Dairy Division waited on the Mangorei company directors and • stressed the necessity of transferring the bulk ol .the company's butter-fat suppliers into cheese shareholders, they gave the directors authority to erect a factory 011 a site approved by the two division officers. Plant and equipment were ordered, but a licence was refused by the "Director of the Dairy Division. Mr. Hall and two other representatives of the company thereupon interviewed Mr. Singleton. *'i was informed that now the amount of cheese decided on was 160.000 tons the new unit would not be required, as that quantity would be obtained by a system of double shifts in existing factories and the reopening of closed buildings, v said Mr. Hall. "When asked if £in allowance bad been made for a less bountiful season, the director stated that a percentage had been allowed. In reporting to shareholders the reason for the non-erection of the buildings, I mentioned, the fact that we had been assured that the < sj would still be obtained."