STANDARDISED CHEESE.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 October 1930, Page 9

STANDARDISED CHEESE.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—'Standardised cheese is evidently going to , cost New Zealand producers dearly, arid serves them right, the greedy beggars. - They made a good, thing out of the British public during the war, and evidently some of them think there is still a war on and the aforesaid British public can still be made to pay a big price for pig food. Arid this is practically what standardised cheese is. I recently purchased from a Taranaki factory, which made no second grade cheese last season, a few pounds of standardised cheese. I will not say I used a pair of tongs to handle it, but if I had taken a mouthful I certainly would have been ‘ll. It was a mongrel colour, with a kind of hairy green fungus growing in the umpteen holes which perforated its entire surface, and attached to each fungus were little white pimples. And I will remind you this particular factory made no second grade cheese last year. Therefore this cheese, or.its mates out of the same vat, had besn .graded’ first, if not finest. As cheese -is supnosed to improve with age there must he something very wrong with the standardised sluff.

We certainly must expect lower prices, but there is no reason for the bottom, to have dropped out of the market ashas happened, if we send an article of food fit for human beings with a cheese taste, and who, notwithstanding all that has been said to the contrary, have the money, to pay for. it. The letter fact is proved by the cable in to-day’s News that an Indian loan of-12 millions-was over-subscribed? seven times. -.Because the New Zealand farmer has convinced himself that John Bull and his; family are floundering in the financial, mire, it does not. necessarily follow that the aforesaid John and family have.actually sprouted two more legs and a Captain Cook snout and are to be fed on-New Zealand cheek (standardised cheese) at a big price.—l am, etc.. W.C.H. get.-21, 1930.