3652
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 98

(d) The owner of every standardized milk cheese-factory shall cause each cheese manufactured therein to be, within twenty-four hours of its first removal from the hoops, clearly and indelibly branded with the vat number of the cheese followed by the number of the day of the month on which the cheese was manufactured.

(e) Before sending or allowing to be sent from his manufacturing dairy any standardized milk cheese the owner of the dairy shall cause each cheese to be clearly and indelibly branded with his registered brand by means of a stencil or rubber stamp.

20. Clause 45 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by inserting after the word “cheese,” and before the word “for,” the words “or standardized milk factory cheese.”

21. Clause 46 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by inserting after the word “cheese,” and before the word “graded,” the words “or standardized factory cheese.”

22. Clause 55 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by inserting after the word “export,” and before the word “that,” the following words “and for the grading of butter or cheese for consumption within New Zealand.”

23. The principal regulations are hereby amended by inserting after clause 60 the following clause:—

60A. When forwarding any standardized milk cheese to a grading-store as aforesaid, the owner shall, in addition to the particulars required by clause 60 of the principal regulations, deliver to the grader, not later than the day prior to the arrival of such cheese at such grading-store a statement with respect to one cheese from each vat represented in the consignment, showing the certificated factory-manager’s determinations of the percentages of water and fat, and fat in the dry matter contained in such cheese, together with the relative vat numbers and number of the days of the month of manufacture thereof.

24. Clause 63 of the principal regulations is hereby revoked and the following clause substituted in lieu thereof:—

“63. All cheese graded under these regulations shall be placed in one of the following classes, viz.:—

(a) Full cream factory cheese, which shall, except as hereinafter provided, include all cheese manufactured at any manufacturing dairy registered as a whole milk cheese-factory, but shall not include any cheese which has been manufactured from milk from which any milk fat has been removed, or to which any milk solids other than milk fat have been added:

(b) Standardized milk cheese which shall except as hereinafter provided, include all cheese manufactured at a manufacturing dairy registered as a standardized milk cheese-factory, and which has been manufactured from milk to which cream has been added, or from whole milk, or from milk from which some of the milk fat has been removed, but shall not include any cheese which has been manufactured between the first day of August in one year and the last day of February in the following year and which contains less than 50 per centum by weight of milk fats in the dry matter, or any cheese manufactured during the months of March to July, inclusive, each year, and which contains less than 52 per centum of milk fat in the dry matter.

(c) Modified milk cheese which shall, except as hereinafter provided, include all cheese manufactured at any manufacturing dairy registered as a whole milk cheese-factory, and which is not made from whole milk, but shall not include any cheese which contains less than 50 per centum by weight of milk fat in the dry matter.

(d) Dairy cheese which shall include all cheese manufactured at any manufacturing dairy registered as a private dairy.

25. Clause 68 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by inserting after the word “grading,” and before the word “factory,” the words “full cream factory cheese or standardized milk.”

26. Clause 69 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by inserting after the word “cheese,” and before the word “shall,” the words “or standardized milk cheese.”

27. Subclause (2) of clause 71 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by inserting after the word “cheese,” and before the word “shall,” the following words “or as to whether any butter is over the legal maximum for water content, or as to whether any cheese is below the legal minimum for milk fat content in the dry matter, for standardized milk cheese, or for export.”

And by adding to the subclause after the word “grade” the words “or tests.”

28. Clause 74 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by inserting after the word “butterfat,” and before the word “or,” the words “or to which any sugar has been added,” and inserting after the word “any,” and before the word “cheese,” the words “modified milk.”

29. Paragraph (b) of clause 78 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by inserting after the word “grading,” and before the word “cheese,” the words “full cream,” and by adding to the said clause 78 the following clause:—

(bb) “The fee for grading standardized milk cheese and modified milk cheese shall be 2·65d. per standard crate, subject as hereinafter provided”; and by deleting from subparagraph (1) of paragraph (c) of the said clause 78, after the word “creamery,” and before the words “whey butter,” the word “factory,” and substituting the following words in lieu thereof, “whole milk cheese-factory, standardized milk cheese-factory.”

30. Subclause (1) of clause 81 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by deleting after the word “of,” and before the word “and,” the words “butter or cheese,” and substituting the words “dairy-produce” in lieu thereof.

31. Clause 82 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by adding the following as subclause (2) thereof:—

“(2) Every owner, upon weighing any milk delivered to his manufacturing dairy shall, where the weight is an exact number of pounds, record the weight accordingly, and where the weight is not an exact number of pounds, record it at the nearest pound below the exact weight.”

32. The Schedule of the principal regulations is hereby amended by inserting after form 10, and before form 11, the following form:—

[Form 10A (Reg. 42).]

CRATE N° 5678

NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE

REG.N°1234

WELLINGTON

NEW ZEALAND

FACTORY CHEESE

165 LB.NET

FAT 50% OR OVER

ACTUAL SIZE OF BRAND, 8 in. by 8 in.

And by adding to the Schedule the following form:—

[Form 26.

NEW ZEALAND DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

This is to certify that is at this date qualified to standardize milk for the manufacture of standardized milk cheese at manufacturing dairies in conformity with the Dairy-produce General Regulations.

Director of the Dairy Division.

Date:

NOTE.—This certificate remains the property of the Department, and must be surrendered on demand. It must also be produced on request at any reasonable time for an inspection by an Inspector or by the owner of the manufacturing dairy at which the holder standardizes milk.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Auckland Savings-bank.—Notice to Depositors.

IN compliance with section 23 of the Savings-bank Act, 1908, notice is hereby given that the rate of interest on deposits will be reduced from 4¾ per cent. to 4½ per cent. as from the 1st day of April, 1929.

By order of the Board of Trustees—

CLEM. BARTLEY, Manager.

By Authority: W. A. G. SKINNER, Government Printer, Wellington.

Price 6d.]