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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8366, 28 February 1913, Page 7

Writing of tho checso passmgthrough the Patca port, tho “County Press” says that this season, up to tho present, some 107,000 cases have been received and they are still pouring in at tho rate of nearly 1000 a day, so there can bo no doubt that tho present will be another record year. What this colossal total means to tho district it is difficult to realise at first. In money alone it represents a total of some £623,000 to the farmers. In weight it represents over 17,000,0001bs of chceso or 70-12 tons. Placed tad to end tho cases would roach over 45 miles. Piled in tiers of six cases abreast and placed side by side with Mount Egmont, they would tower more than six miles above its summit. In other words tho pile of cases six abreast, piled one on top of the other, would bo so great that Mount Egmont, with all its loftiness, would only reach one quarter of the way to tho top of the “Cheese Mountain.”.