N.Z. CHEESE IN LONDON.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1927, 9 December 1913, Page 9

N.Z. CHEESE IN LONDON.

New Zealand cheese 'iias boon well .-.(aerlised 111 London on two .separate occasions recently (savs !jlo Dairy Commissioner. Jlr. I). Cuddie,' in tho'"Agricultural Journal"). The first instance to which 1 refer was when tiie seventysix crates of ohos>3o sent Home lYom the Hist J)nnotliii Winter SFiow wore displayeu in a Tooley Street store under tiie direction of the High Commissioner for ,\wv Zealand. The second display comprised fourteen entries of New Zealand ciieeso at tho dairv show held in the Koyai Agricultural Hal!, fVkm, from October sJJ. to 24 last. Tho Dmicdiii Show choese was scut Home at the suggestion of tho -Department, and included practically tho whole of the factory chee.se singed at the last winter show held in the south-, cni city, It was of very fine quality. The object in view was to demonstrate to produce merchants and others at Home what New Zealand could do in tne way of manufacturing a higii-rhas article under favourable ■conditions. Cabled information since received indicates that this end has been rained, tho c..oese hazing oeon le.vourabjy spoken ol by tnoso tclio examined it, 'and commented upon as being closo to that of I'-uglish make. The cheese displayed at "the dairv shoiy at Islington was entered for competition in the colonial classes by dairv companies in New Zealand. Karlv in tins year the Department circularised a number <>t companies and Uoiiited out. i.iat cheese entered at this show would ?, c " , a!i 'T Mci'did advertisement for New Zealand, ns it would brine; our prmhico prominently before those who visit this f miction from nil parts of Krgland and S-cotinnd. Here, again, Now' Zealand cheese lias coihp in for exceedingly farcurable comment, tho prize-taking ontrios being all from this Dominion. The total number oi entries m the class was twenty-lour, and the awards were as follow

Tanks Dair" Company, first. Kaupokonui Dairv Company. second. Jlawera Dairy Company, third, Taratahi Dairy Comnnnv. commended. Mangaramarama Dairy' Company, reserve. Tho value of such displays can hardly bo overestimated, serving as tliev do to advertise our produce widely, and also 10 demonstrate the fact that the ehceso-inakers-of this country 'can turn out, a product of very high quality when thev arc given an opportunity of doing so." ' 0! oven greater importance to the Dominion, however, is the lesson to bo ma rued at this end from the success which lias attended these exhibitions of our cheese in London. When wo, remember that the whole of this cheese was made from milk which had received proper earn and ntU'iition < n the farms from which it came, and thai on this account it was selected by the various factory managers for the' manufacture of these exhibits, it is a "feather in the cap" of those farmers who delivered Hie milk to the factories. On the oilier hand, the makers of the cheese deserve much credit, because ! hey lmve proved in a most omphalic way i'hat when they are given raw material of sound and good llavour they can without doubt do their part in turning out a first-class article. Tho main lesson we can learn from these successes is that if all milk supplier* we,alii give their miik the utmost care and attention from the time ii is drawn till delivered to tho factories, the makers would then be aide to manufacture a product which would enhance New Zealand's name for Cheddar cheese, and in turn iucrcase the market value of our output. As demonstrating this fact it may be inemioni'd that the three prize-taking lots of cheese mentioned above havo been sold for litis., Ms,, and SUs. per hundredivcigln rospclivel.v. The Mangaramarama entry brought 725. per hundredweight, and the balance Tils. The prices realised ' for the Duncdin show cheese have not been ascertained. These figure? constitute ;; record for the Dominion, and their circulation should have the effect' of encouraging dairy farmers and factory manager's throughout the, country to put, forth 1 their best efforts to turn oat u clicose of similar duality,