The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1884. CHEESE FACTORIES

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1607, 12 February 1884, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1884. CHEESE FACTORIES

"Last Friday," writes our Grey town contemporary, " Mr Win. Bowron, the Government Inspector of Dairy Produco Factory, visited the factory at the Taratahi, and on Saturday lie spent some hours at the Grey town factory. What his official opinion is we are not in a position to state, but we found in conversation that he considered the cheese turned out by tho managers of both factories to be good considering the difficulties they have had to contend with." This statement is not very re-assuring to shareholders who have invested money in these, enterprises, "Pretty good considering" is an unsatisfactory record, but if we ask " Considering what I"—•what are the difficulties which have to' be borne in mind I—we shall cease to wonder that the Government Inspector qualified his' verdict on the ; cheese, Nearly a year ago. we described the manner in which farmers in some instances swindled this particular factory. We now learn from our Greytown contemporary:

The Government Inspector of Dairy Factories has a very poor opinion of the honesty of many formers, and he is borne nut in this by the manager of the Groytown Factory, who labors under considerable disadvantage in having milk seat in after being deprived of some of tho cream, and often just upon the point of turning sour. The suspicion is not general, but in one case it has been decided to u>o a certain test, which' will; it is hoped, put this supplier of milk to tho blush.

Considering the cheese turried out by the Greytown factory has been virtually skim milk cheese, it is no doubt' good, but have not the managers of the Company been foolish to go on paying the price of new milk all the round for an article from which 50 per cent of the cream had been abstracted, because they had not a Government Inspectovto back thorn up. It .must have been generally known right through the piece that the Company .was being swindled. Some people evidently hold that however wicked it may be to cheat a neighbor, it is a legitimate transaction to defraud a company. If the Greytown Company, now its eyea are opened a little, does not expose and punish the fraud which has been perpetrated, it will deserve to fail.