CHEESE EXPORT

Southland Times, Issue 21263, 9 December 1930, Page 6

CHEESE EXPORT

AGREEMENT REACHED. STANDARDIZED BRAND DISCARDED. (Per United Press Association.) Hawera, December 8. Tire Hawera Star publishes an unofficial statement showing that an agreement has been reached on the formula for standardized cheese manufacture following upon representations by deputations and the Dairy Produce Control Board to the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. A. J. Murdoch) and that consideration is being given to an amendment of the regulations under which the fat content of cheese other than full cream would instead of 50 to 52 per cent, as at present be 52 per cent, from August 1 to the end of December and 53 per cent, from the end of December to March 15, and 54 per cent, for the remainder of the season. It is also stated that it is proposed to discard the standardization brand, the cheese under the new regulations to be branded “Cheddar” and other cheese “full cream.” GRADING FIGURES INCREASE SHOWN. Wellington, December 8. The Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture grading figures for the four months ended November, 1930, show an increase for butter of 4.34 per cent, at 35,491 tons (34,013) and for cheese an increase of 11.11 per cent, at 27,447 tons (24,701) as compared with the corresponding period last season. Reduced to terms of butter fat equivalent to the gradings of dairy produce for the four months show an increase of 6.09 per cent, over the corresponding, period for the preceding season.