THE PRICE OF CHEESE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 5 June 1907, Page 4

THE PRICE OF CHEESE.

A well-known North Island dairy pr>duce merchant, whose turnover for the year amounts to about .£.>00,000. informs trie Times' Wairarapa representative that- he is of the opinio# tint cheese will fall considerably in pri'-e next season. His reasons for this statement are—(l) That Canada was now going in extensively for cheese (she already had butter), and was erecting the necessary plant; (2) that the masses of (treat Britain were now forgetting die Chicago tinned mett scare, and were slowly returning to thi* kind of food. Tn the circumstances he thought that it would be a mistake on the part of anv of the co-operative dairy companies in New Zealand to adopt the system cf dual plants. Qujfftioned still further on the subject, the authority declared that a private owner like Mr .Toll, Of Okaiawa. might very well take up th<* scheme of dual plants, where a co-opera-tive company dare not for the simple reason that Mr -Toll was a rich man. who could afford to experiment,whereas with the co-operative institution each supplier usually wanted all his profit* for the year, to keep his farm going, and to pay the hundred and one incidental expenses of those associated with work oil the land. If co-operative companies erected dual plant* and thef" was a slump in the price of cheese, as there was likely to be, the suppliers woufd lose thousands of pounds. On being shown the foregoing opinions, a well-informed dairy farmer thought that too much capital was being made out of the cry that cheese was going to sutler a slump. It hul been going to suffer a slump for some years, he said, with the result that prices were now going higher than ever. Our cheese contribution to the United Kingdom was a mere atom, which might j>e increased one hundred fold with practically no decrease in the price of the output. Canada had farm disabilities which did not all'ect New Zealand, and although it wns naturally (n be expected that the ma-ses would in a measure return to tinned meals of good and approved quality, they were not; likely to forgel their new love in (he shape of Xew Zealand cheese; provided that the quality was all that it should be. If our country could eoniiiiue to send to Britain cheese with a grade of over Do, there would not lie any fear of any fall in tile price.*.