THE CHEESE MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 130, 1 June 1907, Page 7

THE CHEESE MARKET.

, (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) ! WELLINGTON, Friday. A well-known North Isiand dairy produce merchant, whose turnover for the I year amounts to" about £ 500,000. informs , ■ 'the "Times' , Wairarapa representative j { that he is of the opinion that cheese j 'will fall considerably in price next seaf son. His reasons for this statement (are: (I) That Canada was now going in j kextensirely • (she already had | /butter) and was erecting the necessary i (2Y that the masses of Great! 4Britain were now-forgetting the Chicago; I tinned meat scare, and were =lowly re- I turning to this kind of food. In the j circumstances he thought that it would Ibe a mistake on the part of any of the co-operative dairy comjKUties in New Zealand to adopt the system of dual plants. When shown the foregoing [opinions, a. well-informed dairy farmer ! thought, that too much capital was j being made out of the cry that cheese was coing to suffer :i slump. It had been going to suffer a slump lor some years, he .said, with the. result that prices now were going higher than ever. Our cheese contribution to the United Kingdom was a mere atom which might Ibe increased one hundredfold with prac- ! tically no decrease in the price of the j out-put. Canada had farm disabilities which did not affect New Zealand, and although it was naturally to be expected that the masses would in a measure return to tinned meats of good and approved quality, ■ they were not likely to forget their new love in the shape of New Zealand cheese provided that tho quality was all that it should be. If jour country could continue to send to Britain cheeso with a grade of over 05, there would not be any fear of any fall in tiie prices.