KAUPOKONUI CHEESE.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1921, Page 4

KAUPOKONUI CHEESE.

STATEMENT BY AGENT. WITHDRAWN FROM SALE IN LONDON. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. With reference to the cable recently published regarding the alleged sale in London of the Kaupokonui factory cheese at a low price in consequence of damage, Mr. S. Turner writes to the Press Association as follows: “As my firm (Messrs. J. and J. Lonsdale and Co., Ltd.) are agents for the factory in question, and I had not heard anything about this alleged sale, I cabled my firm, and they replied that the cheese was put up at auction but bought in my Messrs. J. and J. Lonsdale and Co., Ltd., because the price offered was absurdly below value. There is no doubt in my mind that this report has been published by enemies of the Kaupokonui factory, because such news published in this country at such a depressed time as the present is only another phase of the scaremongers’ work, with a motive at the bottom. It is expected that Kaupokonui will not lose much, if anything, by the time everything is taken into consideration, as it must be remembered that a certain proportion of last season’s cheese was sold for other factories by firms at 96/-, while Kaupokonui’s lowest price has been 104/-, and a big shipment, that should have been sold at 96/-, but which was delayed owing to the breakdown of machinery, realised 103/-.”