BUTTER AND CHEESE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4780, 24 November 1924, Page 2

BUTTER AND CHEESE.

RAISING THE GRADE. ’ . NEW REGULATIONS. Advice has been sent to butter and cheese factories that the new regulation with regard to the raising of. the grade of New Zealand butter and cheese will take effect as from January 1 next. The position under the new scheme will be that first grade butter and cheese will have to grade '•* 90 points instead of 88 as at present, and everything below 90 points will be classed second grade.' The raising of grades has been discussed for a considerable time past, but has been hastened by the fact that a number of complaints were re- -, ceived from London during last sea- J son in regard to the quality of some of our butter and cheese. Another important factor was that practically every other producing country <s making strenuous efforts of improving the quality of their butter and cheese, and to this purpose are stiffening their grades. As far as butter is concerned, it is being recognized that Denmark and New Zealand have no serious rival for really first-class butter, while the competition in second-class butter is increasing at an alarming rate. The raising of two points in firstgrade cheese has slightly alarmed some of our cheese factories. It is looked upon as a deicded handicap to those factories making unpasteurised cheese and requests were made to the Control Board to exempt such factories. It is fairly obvious that thia could not be done, and as a result many of these cheese factories have installed pasteurisers.