WAIKATO V. CANTERAURY CHEESE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1803, 26 January 1884, Page 2

WAIKA TO Y. CANTERA U RY CHEESE.

We take the following from yesterday's N.Z. Herald : — A number of the wholesale and retail grocers paid a visit yesterday to the offices of the Auckland Agricultural and Mercantile Company (Limited), at fie mr tation of th.3 manager (Mr G. W. Owen), in order to taste and test the relative merits of cheeso produced by the Te Awamutu Cheese Factory, that of Waikato (Hamilton), and cheese from the well-known Ashburton Factory, Canterbury. Among the gentlemen present were : — Messrs Robert "Heal, F» Hewin, Holland and Fortzer, H. P. Gibbons, Ellingham, and J. Briagman (one of the directors of the Te Awamutu Cheese Factory). Three cheese were cut up, for inspection and tasting, one from each factory. Those who tasted the different varieties were for the most part of opinion that the Te Awamutu cheese was the best made, but the Hamilton cheese of the richest flavour. The Ashburton cheese seemed to be indifferently pressed and " marbled." It was taken at random, as an average sample, from one of the groo»r's shops. As over half-a-dozen of cheese factoiiesare now at work in this districk, with, a weekly out-put of 30 tona a week, it will soon become a question of serious importance as to the best outlet for its export, through the supply, being in excess of the local demand. It seems strange that with such fine samples of cheese as were exhibited yesterday from Waikato that Canterbury cheese any should be imported into this maket. Mr Bridgman, we may mention, was yesterday congratulated on the excellent specimen of cheese furnished from the Te Awamutu factory, of whieb he is a direotpri