RUMOUR NOT BASED ON FACT

Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1932, Page 9

RUMOUR NOT BASED ON FACT

NO SKIM MILK IN CHEESE FACTORY FLAT DENIAL BY DIRECTOR. “A rumour was abroad that a member of the Dairy Division had visited a cheese factory and had -found a quantity of skim milk alongside a eheese vat,” said Mr. L. J. Rundle, chairman of directors of the Bell Block Dairy Company, at the conference of Taranaki dairy factory managers yesterday. It was a very serious matter and he hoped the officers of the Dairy Division would be able to give the rumour a flat denial as other-, wise the industry would soon find itgelf in the same predicament as it was a few. years ago in connection with standardisation.

Mr. T. Renton, manager of Cape Eg-, mont factory, and president of the-as-' sociation, said that he could.: assure, the.. Dairy Division that the members of the association were 100 per cent./biehin-d. it; in adhering to the regulations in-connec-tion with the manufacture of cheese and would give the Dairy Division every assistance in tracing the rumours and effectively dealing with them. Later Mr. W. M. Singleton, Director of the Dairy Division, stated that since Mr. Rundle had introduced the matter he had taken the opportunity of discussing it with the instructors in Taranaki. They.knew of no case where an instructor had found any skim milk in a cheese factory. The rumour was not based on fact. *