CHEESE QUALITY

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2992, 22 April 1933, Page 5

CHEESE QUALITY

RAISING THE STANDARD. .

COMMITTEE'S DECISION.

(By Telegraph—Press Association). WELLINKTON, Thursday.

The Minister of Agriculture, Hon. C. E. Macmillan, in a statement issued last night outlined steps being taken to bring about an improvement in the quality of cheese. He explained what had been decided upon by a committee representative of dairying interests. If was realised, the Minister said, that much had to be done to bring Dominion-made cheeso up to the proper standard of quality. The committee's decisions really represented the adoption of recommendations made in the first place by the Dairy Produce Board and were as follows:

(1). That regulations be gazetted to prevent a supplier from leaving one factory for another. (2). The definite establishment of milk grading with differential payment. (3). The licensing of factory managers. (4). The dairy division to tako over a cheese factory as requested by the board. At a meeting of the committee a cablegram from the High Commissioner was read stating that this season's cheese showed an improvement. Tho Minister added that the departmental staff was now pushing matters forward with a view to having everything in order for commencing the new season under tho improved conditions which had boon agreed upon.