BUTTER AND CHEESE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 35, 5 November 1917, Page 8

BUTTER AND CHEESE

PEIOES AND COLD STORAGE.

i. The Prime, Minister .is still in com--sntmloacion with tho Imperial authorises regarding soma. of the details of tho butter and checse purchases. Tho • \prioes already mentioned—OJd. per lb., Jor cheese and 1375. per cwt. for butter— tiro to be (x>.b., but it might bo awkir.ird ,{prithe producers, in view of the ghortaga ,'of shipping, if they had to wait for •shipment before they got any part of ;thair money. - Mr. Massey may be ablo announce within a few daya I hat arhrangementa have been rnado for the payment of advances on dairy produco jylaoed in the stores to the order of the umperial Supplies "Department. - The Government has taken power to iiuake advances up to a total sum of I 118120,000 to companies or oilier bodies ; for the provision of additional cold [storage. It has also provided, through (the Statute Law Amendment Act, that dairy companies shall have power "to ipurcrfase shares in, or otherwise to ns.sist : and promote onv othor company formed, ■'or proposed to bo fqrroed," for the erection of cool stores and freezing works • and the carrying on of the business of ■ refrigeration. A considerable extension • of the cool storage space availablo for butter and cheese is likely (o'bo made vender these powers. Refrigerating plant . 'is not-easily-"obtainable, on any- terns at the present time, but many of'the .plants already erected in the Dominion ..are not working to-their full capacity, .and could be made to serve additional . stores.. , ■ • , I