DAIRY PRODUCE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21648, 8 May 1940, Page 8

DAIRY PRODUCE

NECESSITY FOR UTMOST CARE IN MANUFACTURE By Telegraph—Press Association PALMERSTON NORTH, May 7. The need for the utmost care being taken by dairy factory managers in the manufacture of butter and cheese was emphasised by -Professor W. Riddet when speaking to the annual conference of managers and first assistants, assembled at the Dairy Research Institute. He was referring to the effect of the hostilities on the supply of dairy produce to Great Britain by the shutting off of the Scandinavian imports of 200,000 tons of butter. Britain would be asking New Zealand to supply some of that loss, and it would be definitely to the Dominion’s advantage to supply an article of superior quality because one could not tell what the result would be if substitutes got a footing on the British market. Margarine to-day in some cases, he said, could hardly be distinguished from butter, and the result might very well be that if it gets into everyday use it will be difficult to convince people that it would be better to have butter. There was also the need for greater care in manufacture because of the conditions which the produce was likely to be subjected to by transport in war time, and New Zealand butter and cheese must still be a good article when it reached the consumer.