EXPORT OF BUTTER AND CHEESE.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 356, 13 May 1884, Page 5

EXPORT OF BUTTER AND CHEESE.

-'" AtWisa«jstiiig at Auckland the other day .of gfififclempn interested in tbe • cheese and' b^r factories, Llr; Bowron the Government inspector, stated - that" cheese from .-A rifowton had sold at ■'from. 50s lto 70s per cwt; Another . thirty had been bent, and he ventured .toisai; it. would not realise less than "' -*-74s'--/ Mr Bowrori then went on to ex- ■ ! plain that in London large cheeses, ■■■;". 1 -&Km6Bolb, would brißg about LlO a more than small cheeses. Next ' 'Year twenty .factories -would be m ■■■& hw and each will be able ' to . manufacture fifty tons of cheese. If the product of; XOOQ .tons were solo inXonaon,say at 74s,;they could see the amount of money it would tone

to the colony. He was of opinion that there should be one factory gfor Chedder double Gloucester cheese, and all young persons engaged in the business should take out a certificate of competency. He was also convinced butter factories would be a success in the colony. Mr J. C. Firth said he would put strongly before the directors of the New Zealand Shipping Company and the Shaw-Savill Albion Company whether it would not. be a much better policy for them to announce at once that they were prepared to take cheese in considerable quantities in the cool. ing chambers at id per pound, for at present the rate of freight was simply prohib >iv-\ The cost of delivering cheese !■■ ndon at present — viz., 2|d — w-< * than the industry could stand.