ICE-CREAM INDUSTRY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1036, 29 July 1930, Page 11

ICE-CREAM INDUSTRY

MANUFACTURERS CONFER Press Association WELLINGTON, Monday. “More than £500,000 is invested in ‘•he ice-cream industry, which produces 'iOO.OOO gallons of ice-cream each year ln this country,” said the president, Mr. H. Turner, at a conference of ice<:ream manufacturers which has just been concluded.

"U is estimated.” he said, "that the Mai output of a herd of 300 cows would be required to produce the milk a &d cream necessary for this amount, and - apart from the labour employed ln the production of this enormous Tuantity of milk, the industry gives cr nployment to some hundreds of men. . A. fact, which should not be lost Jfjt of. is that, in order to secure r 'Uk and cream of maximum purity 25 quality, the industry pays a price nich is, roughly, 25 per cent, higher J 5« toe ruling rates for butter-fat, ~*ch is the means of putting a conquerable additional sum into the Pockets of the dairy farmers during in * flush period.” k was decided to adopt an official for members of the association na * ° Co "°P e rate with the Health DeIn tu®?* to ensure hygienic conditions n ® industry. rh * e c °nference decided to approach department with a request that L n ep^ra tions containing less than the ui2i r< l quantity of but ter-fat be sold °t ice* name “water ices,” instead