IMPORTED CHEESE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 635, 15 August 1882, Page 2

IMPORTED CHEESE.

To ihe Editor. Sm, —In your report of tbe proceedings of tbe Farmers' Club at the last meeting some remarks of mine are given, in which I stated I was under the impression that tho cheese lately imported from Lyttelton, and then exported hence as Akaroa cheese, was Peninsula produce, and came from one of the bays between here and Lyttelton. 1 had no intention of my remarks being published, since I really knew nothing about the cheese, aud it was merely to a few by-standers after the meeting was over that I suggested the probability of the cheese in question being after all of Peninsula manufacture. However, as several members stated they had seen the cheese, and that it was of so indifferent a quality as to bring discredit on Akaroa cheese—which it was exported as—it is for those immediately concerned in the importation to clear themselves. It will be remembered that a few years ago some three hundred sacks of erasa seed wero imported hither from Taranaki, and then re shipped as the produce of this district. Now, seeing that boih in cheese and grass seed Banks Peninsula imquestion ibly produces better articles than any other part of the colony, it is right that residents should do their best to protect its good name from being traded on by inferior produce being imported only to bo exported as the genuine- local article. A proposition, was made at the meeting tbat the club should adopt a brand, and that with it all Peninsula cheese should bo branded. For various reasons I don't think this plan would work. The most effectual way of putting down the evil is for the public to show their strong disapprobati >n of a mode of business so detrimental to the interests of the Peninsula generally. Yours, etc., W. 11. HENNING. August 14.