CHEESE IN STORE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 154, 19 March 1918, Page 8

CHEESE IN STORE

. HEAVY ACCUMULATION. ' The chairman of .the Wellington Harbour Board (Mr. C. E. Daniell) stated at yesterdayV meeting that the new .cheese store erected by the hoard last year was at present, full. 1 Even the alley-ways between the'-stacks hadbcen used for storage, and' the hoard's stores contained at the present, time 108,000 crates of cheese; Experts luid certified to the 1 excellent care taken of this produce. Cheese had lain in tho stores month 'after month without suffering deterioration, and the 'officers of the Agricultural' Department Itad expressed admiration of the work done by tho members of the board's staff.

'Mr. Daniell stated that he had tried t<i improve the methods of handling the cheese. An electric tractor had been provided to draw trucks, each carrying twelve crates of cheese, and lie had hoped that the board would have the co-operation of il\c shipping companies in'.tlie tise, of this tractor, lint, the .companies had resisted improved methods. They had an agreement that permitted the use of slings ■ holding sixteen crates ol' cheese, and they insisted 011 using the slings instead- of the trays provided by the board tor use in'.conjunction with the trucks. The result was that valuable., produco was damaged. "That is 'lmnian perversity which I .cannot understand," said Mr. Daniell. "I"'shall keep or. worrying the companies nntil they do better, x feel that we should do something to prevent produce being knocked about unnecessarily. Every time a. crate of cheese is handled roughly _ its market value is reduced. There is a totally unnecessary destruction of valuable-, produce through the insistence of tho shipping companies upon the use of the filings instead of tlio trays."