AIDING THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

Patea Mail, 26 August 1931, Page 2

AIDING THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

KAJPIbL MARKETING BOARD. LNA'ESTLG ATI.NiG CHEESE PLOP IT MS. The Umpire ALarketing Board’s report for M.av contains some interesting particulars with regard to the board’s efforts to assist the dairying imlustrv in tliis country and other parts vf 11. • British Empire. GHEES E RIPENING. With regard to cheese ripening, the report states that a third year’s grant has been approved -to the University of British Columbia for the continuation of research, .on cheese ripening 'problems. The University is itself providing funds for this work on a pound for pound basis with the board. The first of a series of papers dealing with this research bias been received and will be published in an early number of the ‘Journal of Dairy Research.’ During the past year I’rofessor Wilfred Sadler, who is in charge of tine work, has visited the United Kingdom and dismissed his investigations with dairy research experts in this country. Dr. Alarsden. the Secretary of the New Zealand Department of Scientific! and Industrial Research, after attending the Imperial Conference, returned to New Zealand via "Vancouver, where he met I’rofessor Sadler. As a result arrangements have been made for close collaboration between workers in live United Kingdom, British Columbia, and New Zealand in the held of dairy research. ? OB EX NESS IN’ CHEESE. Tiie report states that a grant: ’.'.as iiei’u approved to the New Zealand Dairy Kesearch Institute for investigation of the problem of “openness” in New Zealand cheese. The New Zealand Government and the New Zealand Da J v Produce Heard are financing those sections of the work of the Dairy Research! Institute which have a direct bearing on imanufiicture. and the Empire .Marketing Board’s grant is to enable work, of a more fundamental character tv be undertaken on the chemical and bacteriological aspects of the problem of “openness.” This is L.vng carried out in (dose collaboration with dairv research workers in this ccnntry at the National Institute for Research in Dairying at Reading and in Canada at the University of British Columbia. The. quantity of cheese exported from New Zealand during the year 1040 was 01.000 tons, valued at, over £1i,000,000. all of which came to ■ the United Kingdom,