CHEESE PRODUCTION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 137, 4 August 1941, Page 5

CHEESE PRODUCTION

-NEIGHBOURLY SPIRIT EVIDENCED ALL WISH TO SHARE WAR EFFORT Shareholders of the Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Co., Ltd., will dSscuss at ani extraordinary general meeting at Edgecumbe on Thursday next the question of increased' cheese production. Aspects of this problem which affect all shareholders, whether they supply milk for cheesemaking or cream for buttermaking are the transfer of supply and a proposal that all rein ceipts and outgoings of the company be so pooled that shareholders who have been obliged' to change over from cream to milk supply will be recompensed for the definite assessable average loss occasioned by the change over of supply. It is estimated that milk equivalent in butterfat to 1300' tons of but* ter will be diverted from the com* pany's butter factory at Edgecumbe U> the company's new cheese fac tory near the Paper Mills at Whakai tane. The general feeling among the company's shareholders is that auy financial loss resulting from th<? change over to cheese supply should be borne by all shareholders, in accordance with the principles of co-. operation on which the company was founded. This movement towards sharing tny loss has been taken up with the utmost good feeling throughout the company's district, as evidence of the spirit of neighbourliness' existing among local farmers.. Tbo,se farmers who will still be supplying cream to the butter factory and producing pigs as usual have been expressing their desire to share in the community war effort by seeing to It that their fellow farmers, who have been diverted to cheese supply ivill not be out of pocket at the end of the season. It is probable that resolutions giving effect to the wishes of shareholders in that direction will be put forward at the meeting on Thursday nnd will receive endorsement. In tne meantime farmers are "carrying on" as usual with the important work nf dealing with cows now coming to profit, so that when the new cheese factory is ready to start manufacturing there will be a huge volume of milk available daily.