WELLINGTON TOPICS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1930, Page 2

WELLINGTON TOPICS

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

GOVERNOR-GENERAL SPEAKS. (Special Correspondent). WELLINGTON, November 3. In these columns last week the differences of opinion between experts in regard to “standardised" cheese” were mentioned. Reference’ was'made to the opinion expressed by a gather.ng oi factory representatives at Hamilton a day or two previously to the effect that the quality* of both full cream and standardised cheese could be improved “by the tightening up of the existing regulations,” and the protest against the proposal to abolish the present regulations which permit of .standardisation.” Mr. W. J. Poison, the president of the. Farmers’ Union, also had warned the. producers against being bullied by the Chairman of ’ the Ha ry Board into the abandonment of standardisation. “It is a very important question; indeed, 1 ” he told the Union, “and it 'is very important no hr sty step should be taken.” Stand- >. ar-Jisation,- it may be as well to mention, is jtlie process of reducing the amount pf .'butter fat in the milk to a measure necessary for cheese making,; ; . Vj AN EXPERT’S ADVICE. Now ; His Excellent the' GovernorGeneral a , practical agriculturist, who is takirig'a very keen interest ih: New Zealand farming, has come ori the scene with a. word or two concerning standardisation. “New Zealand,” he said speaking at the Wairarapa Show last week, “might produce .standardised cheese,' and it might he some, of the linest cheese, in the world; .but when it was labelled with , that -description'; on the British market the question was asked “what does the name, .mean?” The reply would be that it. meant cheese made from milk from which part of the cream had been withdrawn. The retort' of the British market was “that" it'wllat we called skimmed milk cheese.” In consequence the Home consumer would be prepared to pay for stanardised milk only skimmed milk pries. Consequently! New Zealand was not going to be judged by its.'quality, but by its name, and New Zealand producers might , not get full value for their goods.” Here is advise likely to shake.standardisation. ROAD TRAINS. The Rev. Dr. J. T. Penifold, who has just returned from' a trip to the Old Country, tells of great changes in the methods of transport in .England, some of them typical of what is going’Oix ill New Zealand; ' There are thousands Of inotor-cars rUsh’Ug through the Country every day of the week,” lie told a representative ctf the “Post” ut the week end. “A nig trade has sprung up in transporting freight. Goods are carried through the country . nearly from one end to the other. Travelling by night between London and Manchester our car passed, many- times a' procession of twenty motor-lorries piled high with goods: merchandise that a few years ago would • all have been sent by the railway. Of course, it is making a gi’eat difference in the financial returns of the railway companies. The incomes are much less than they used to be.” No doubt the railways at Home have submitted, to the inevi- 1 table and made the best of a bad job. FIVE SHILLING TOTE. The “Five shilling tote,” -the cunning device which is to gather in the coppers ifrom the half crown investors at the Taka puna race meeting th s month, is not in half as much disfavour with the punting public as the promoters of the bigger meetings would have their patrons believe. Quite probably the five .shilling tickets will tempt a small punter to get two shots out of hi.s half-sovereign instead of one, and so give the attendants more trouble than they otherwise woud have had; but this will not lessen the clubs 1 revenue;nor deteriorate the quality of their sport. After all, it is only about ten per cent, of those who go rac.ng who devote their . whole attention to money making. The “good sport” seeks ••fun ando ; exhilaration from his day’s outing,; find as often as not is to be found among the outsiders and the lovers of horses.