NEW ZEALAND CHEESE IN THE LONDON MARKET.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 34, 9 January 1884, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND CHEESE IN THE LONDON MARKET.

Direst' steam communication 'with New Zealand, (remarks a leading Eng- 1 lish Journal) coupled with cold Kir storage, is likely to have a very important effect, upon our food supplies, and to' render us' less dependent than we hays been • upon America and other countries.' There has recently been oti'view at Messrs Gh F. Brooke and Go's Leadenhall Market, Rome excellent specimens of cheese imported from New Zealand by Messrs Bowron Brothers, of Palnierston building^' ' Old Bond : street, and, it is said that no less than, eighty tons are now on the way fa this' country.- The importation of butter from , th,e colony; • has ajso been commenced., ; It. is stated that all the conditions are favourable ,to the develop-

iiienfcofvdairy produce. The mildness ohxm climate, and the fertility of the soil/ conduce to rend' r Now Zealand, for aU practical dairy purposes, preferabfe either to England or Ameri a. Mr. W. Bowron, who is well known m the-southern counties of Eugland from -fiis long connection with the dairying and cheese-niuking business, has lately visited the colony, and, from the warm interest he has token m the capabilities of the colony m this direction, has been appointed Government Inspector of dairy prorfuce-factoriesr" Under his auspices, the.^Oity Pijess says, several factories have already been established, 'tmd "many "otherß are-hr-process of formation. The great requirements, how ever, m the colony are : Practical farmers with a thorough knowledge of dairying and cheese-making, competent managers of cheese factories, and «x---'perien c :e 4, mil kei-s. . . ( . Bo wj on has 4hat- ihere'aijejnany ipWctical dairy farmeas m England who would be willing to emigrate to ,»w Zealand if landowners m that colony would offer the, inducement .of letting farms with dairy stock, and> thu* provide a considerable portion of the capital required. Certain landowners have re sponded to the suggestion, and Messrs I fiA\tjroj);are nowf negotiating- with farmers on the terms', which include Free passage; the letting, of facms from 50 to 500 acres, at rents to He agreed u Pon : according ; to ; locality of land, about 20s per acre ; calving cows to be let wjtlvjhe far.mss.net, to bejacluded m tne rental, accorUnig loHKe^canying capacity of each farm ; and a sixroomed cptf age .will , be provided on each holding, and an : outbuilding ov stable, and so on. The whole of the dpfcaj)B.ne f ed not be givjon^bui the subject iS emiueiltly-' woVthy-^ofi attention, seeing how depressed the farming busihas been here for a number of years.