PRODUCTION OF CHEESE

Southland Times, Issue 24212, 23 August 1940, Page 6

PRODUCTION OF CHEESE

Securing Additional Quantity (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 22. As a step towards securing an additional quantity of cheese this season, in accordance with the undertaking given by the New Zealand Government to the United Kingdom Government to produce and supply at least 15,000 tons more cheese than the quantity supplied last season, the Dairy Supply Control Order 1940 has been made by the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. W. Lee Martin) under the powers conferred on the Minister by the Primary Industries Emergency Regulations 1939. The effect of the order, which came into force on August 19 and appears in tonight’s Gazette, is: (1) To tie the milk supply from farm dairies to those cheese factories to which the milk supply was delivered during the 1939-40 season. (2) To. prohibit the transfer of supplies from cheese factories. (3) To tie the milk or cream supply from farm dairies to those creamery butter factories to which the milk or cream supply was delivered during the 1939-40 season and which have lost, or may lose by transfer to cheese factories, more than 24 per cent, of the supply (computed on a butterfat basis) j that was delivered to such creamery butter factories during the 1939-40 season.

(4) To prohibit the transfer of supplies from such creamery butter factories, except transfers of supply to cream factories.

In other words, the occupiers of farm dairies affected by the order and their successors in occupation are required to carry on the same form of production as that produced on the farm dairy and supplied for the manufacture of cheese or creamery butter during the 1939-40 season. Provision is made for exemptions from the operation of the order in proper cases by the Director of the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture, or by the assistant director of that division in respect of suppliers to cheese factories, and by Sir Francis Frazer, deputychairman of the Executive Commission of Agriculture in respect of suppliers to creamery butter factories to which the order applies.