CHEESE FOR BRITAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1941, Page 3

CHEESE FOR BRITAIN

NEED FOR GREAT EFFORT.

STATEMENT SAID TO BE

INCORRECT,

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, This Day. In an interview with reference to a Press Association telegram from New Plymouth this week, in which the chairman of the Mangorei Co-opera-tive Dairy Company, Mr A. Hall, is said to have stated he had received from the Director of the Dairy Division, Mr W. M. Singleton, information that a survey had disclosed that the 160,000 tons of cheese required by Britain from New Zealand was assured. Mr Singleton said: “The published statement is incorrect and misleading. I have never made a statement of this nature, and in fact, have stressed, and still stress, the necessity for all producers and cheese factories exerting themselves to ihe limit, in order that we might approximate such an output under normal climatic conditions. Certain cheese factories, which are now being reorganised, cannot get started at the beginning of the season, but these, should be in a position either to make cheese throughout next winter or open up early in the spring of 1942, and it is reasonable to expect that the objective of 160,000 tons should be reached in 1942-43,”