CHEESE MANUFACTURE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 162, 1 October 1941, Page 5

CHEESE MANUFACTURE

COMMENCEMENT TO-DAY

•"SOME SUPPLIERS CHANGE OVER

The Rangitaiki Plains Dairy

Company's new cheese factory commenced manufacturing cheese to-day a slmailil number of suppliers who are reasonably Close to the factory haying changed over from supplying the butter factory at Edgecumbe to' dispatching cans of milk to the rer cenitly equipped building at the location near the Paper Mills.

The factory on which many workmen have been engaged during Hie past two months is now practically fully equipped with modern machand it has been stated by farmers interested that work will commence with four vats in operation.

The finished product has to be placed on shelves to mature and it Is anticipated that within the next three weeks the first shipment of cheese for England will cross the tWhakatane bar by scows plying to Auckland to tranship to the oceangoing steamers.

Manager Appointed'

manager of the factory lias been appointed by the directorate, M<r T. M. Gonnery, late of the Niihaka Dairy Coy, being chosen. The Other staff members numbering 25 have also been engaged, a number of these being local, and in some -cases drawn from other occupations. For instance it is reported that two local telephone exchange clerks have

accepted positions

Supply of Cans

The supply of milk cans is sufficient to cope with the work at the outset and it is reasonably expected that more will be forthcoming later

in the season

The number of producers to make the change over, it appears, are those who have been, despite the shortage of material, able to equip their sheds, and whose sheds are reasonably close to the road. The shortage of equipment has held up other -suppliers, it being reported that there' is difficulty in obtaining coolers for sheds. These men evidently are. being given time by the factory to complete the rather extensive alterations and there are gaps in the line of farmers from where milk is :fo bei collected.

Cans Delivered

The line appears to be along the Whakatane-T'hornton road which according to a resident of that area has been a hive of- industry lately.

Bright new cans were delivered to 'suppliers on Tuesday in readiness for Wednesday morning's milking, and this work of the company's drivers and trucks evoked considerable interest and further emphasised to the man on the land the importance <of the part he is playing in the war.

Not only will the farmers find their daily routine somewhat strange at the outset, but also the new system leaves drivers of the company's trucks a little "in the air." The fact that this is so is probably the cause of only a once daily collection being instituted to-morrow. However, without doubt, all concerned will before long have the Avork at their fingertips and a maximum of efficiency will prevail.