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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 175, 3 November 1941, Page 5

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—T" UCTION ON THE PLAINS AN EVENTFUL MONTH PASSES

October was an eventful month for the Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Coy—for its management, suppliers, staff and also for its wel'l ■wishers in the town of Whiakatane. On October 1 a start was made with the production of •cheese at the new Pupuaruhe factory as part of the Com- j pany's contribution to the Dominion's war effort. i The new cheese factory is now a month old, and is going as strongly as if it had been' established a generation ago. Quietly and capably a new local enterprise has been launched. The result of the factory's production in October will be several thousand crates of good ■ cheese which will no doubt be much •appreciated some time in 1942 bj' in Britain's heavy industries eating their bread and cheese for luncTr, e.r,,by men in khaki some, - overseas. Hard! Month October has been a hard month for man and beast in this district. " Rain every other day and less sunshine than usual have made condi"tions not too pleasant for outdoor workers —the men who milk on the farms and for the men who collect the milk at farm gates and speedily take it to the factory. No doubt the eheesemakers have had their own problems bacteriological, mechanical •etc. Much Credit Due However, October is past, and notw, with better weather to be expected throughout November and December, conditions should be better and brighter for all concerned in the new enterprise of turning Rangitaiki Plains milk into British cheese. With this thought in mind there is much credit due to the many hundred people of the Plains who have given the factory a good start by toiling long hours during •-the past month. First Shipment Made from the supply of milk ■early in the month and left to) mature on the shelves for some three weeks, the first shipment of Rangitaiki cheese left on the first stage of its long jouirney to England on Friday, October 24. A' Northern Company's vessel made its way up.stream to load at the Paper Mills wharf and conveyed this first shipment across the bar on its way to Auckland for transhipment to one of the many larger ships which run ±he gauntlet to England.