CHEESE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6314, 14 September 1907, Page 3

CHEESE

THE NEED OF A LONDON ETPKRT. Speaking to the writer on the n»pd of a New Zealand cheese erpert being stationed in London, Mr W. Fisher, of the Taxatahi Co-operative Dairy Company, Carterton, declared that the stationing at the Home end of a man who understood the manufacture of our cheese was imperative. Unlike butter, cheese was not at its best until it arrived j Home—that was. till it was fully roa-! tured—and though the grader at this end could pain a fair idea of its quality it was not till the cheese reached the market that an authoritative opinion rouTd be passed on it. An expert stationed in London would be able to render (Treat assistance to (Traders and instructors at this end. _ Mr Fieher states that reports are sometimes received from Home contradictory to those made by the graders at this end. "While admittins; that some of these reports could not be relied on—probably being made with an eye to the main chance, to capture, for instance, subsequent consignments from the exporting company—

still, if there was an unbiased man on the bpot lie could dechtre definitely wlio was right, and his reports would he accepted with confidence by producers, and Mip burti-'p'.'-ts l>e thereby placed on a better looting.