FARMING PERSONLITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20966, 19 February 1938, Page 17

FARMING PERSONLITIES

£l5; fourth £lO. The entry fee is £1 and the class is for one box of salted butter not less than 561 b net, twelve weeks stored, to be graded on Australian export standard. Exhibits are to be manufactured without preservative of any kind other than salt, and to have a moisture content of not less than 15 per cent. The conditions laid down for the competition are as follow: 1. Exhibits must be packed in plain export containers, branded boxes or containers not permitted. For purposes of identification a detachable label must be affixed to the lid of the exhibit before it is wrapped in its protecting cover, and endorsed “World’s Butter Championship,” and with the exhibitor’s name and address. 2. The surface of the butter to be plain or honeycombed. 3. Overseas exhibits to be addressed to the secretary, Australian Institute of Dairy Factory Managers and Secretaries, New South Wales division, carethe Producers’ Co-operative Distributing Society, Ltd., Quay and Valentine streets, Sydney, N.S.W. Butter must be in cold store, Sydney, not later than February 28, 1938, or certificate produced showing same to be in transit by such date. 4. Arrangements will be made for the sale of exhibits on completion of exhibition, and account sales and cheques tendered direct to exhibitors.

5. All exhibits will be subject to an analysis, and may include that for any constituent. Exhibits will be analysed upon receipt, and any not conforming to the standard will be disqualified. A copy of the analysis will be forwarded exhibitors. Only one exhibit will be allowed by each exhibitor, but branch factories may enter separately. All exhibits from outside the Commonwealth will enter Australia free of duty. The Blue Star Line will convey exhibits to Australia free of all cost, and the butter will receive special treatment in transit in cooling chambers. The judging will be conducted by the Commonwealth Supervisor of Exports and by officers of his department.