CHEESE AND BUTTER MAKING.

Shannon News, 13 June 1922, Page 2

CHEESE AND BUTTER MAKING.

LOCAL FACTORIES AT TARANAKI

SHOW. KUKU AWARDED CHEESE AGGREGATE.

The Shannon and Levin butter factories and the Kuki| cheese factory have again been successful in show, competition, this time at the Taranaki Metropolitan A. and P. winter show, which commenced on Wednesday. In the cheese section the Kuku factory, of which Mr G. Woods is manager, scored heavily. It won the Shaw, Savill and Albion Co.’s £25 cup champion competition for the best crate of full-cream Cheddar cheese suitable for export, the points gained fifing 95. Kuku also won the ' Viking Rennet Special for the manager scoring the highest points for any single entry of export cheese made with Viking rennet, again .reaching 95 points, l’he same factory was third, with 93?, points, in the open class 'or crate N.Z. Cheddar cheese, white or colonial, suitable for export, the two leading factories being half a point ahead. In the competition for three loaf cheese (open to all factories in New Zealand), Kuku was fourth with 92, and fifth in the Union S.S. Co.’s competition for crate of coloured Cheddar cheese (92£ points), and gained a similar position in the Taranaki Metropolitan Society’s competition for best* case medium cheese for local trade. >n the novice class for crate of Cheddar cheese, white or coloured, suitable Aor export, Kuku (C. Thomson) v T as eighth out of 16 competitors with 923 points, the winner being only two points ahead. Kuku scored the highest aggregate in classes 8. 9, LI, 12 and 13, plus average grade for season, with 557.98 points. There was big competition in all classes, and Mr Woods arid the company are to be warmly congratulated on tiieir success.

The butter section was keenly contested, and good entries were forward. Levin (Mr Jas. Smellie) was second with 95 points in box butter most suitable for local trade, and Shannon (Mr Jas. Aim) fifth in the same class with 93|. In the Dairy Factory Managers’ Association’s Trophy lor best, b'x of export butter, Levin tied for second with 95, and Shanilon was fifth with 93?,. Levin again tied for second in the champion competition •’’or export butter with 95, Shannon taking sixth place with 933. Shannon and Levin (923 each) tied for fifth place in Nathan and Co.’s 50-guinea cup competition for best box of butter suitable for export, and in Lovell and r ’hristmas’ competition for best box of export butter, Levin (933) was, seventh, and Shannon (9R.J) eleventh. The class for novices was also well contested, B. S. Parsons (Levin) being eighth with Golden Bay with 933, ami G. Watkins (Shannon) twelfth vith 92£.