BIG PRODUCTION OF DAIRY FACTORY ON THE PLAINS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 16, 6 November 1950, Page 5

BIG PRODUCTION OF DAIRY FACTORY ON THE PLAINS

“I consider on a conservative estimate that our company will have an annual output of 6,500 tons of creamery butter within the next 10 years. Another 70 farms in the Galatea district will be established within the next three years and on the basis of present production in the Galatea district these will pro- / duce an additional 500 tons of butter per annum,” said the chairman of directors of the Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Company Ltd., Mr S. C. Spence, to the Port Inquiry Committee. •

“Improved methods of production and additional and closer settlement -in our main production area, should easily account for the remaining 300 tons of our estimated increase of approximately 800 tons of butter.

“As the Bay of Plenty Dairy Factories produced a total of 17,678 tons of butter and cheese during the 1949-50 season this represents 13.83 per cent of the butter and cheese shipped from the port of Auckland during the 1948-49 season. The annual tonnage of the Bay factories is greater than the total of all South Island ports and greater than the combined tonnage of Wanganui, Gisborne and Napier. The grading of dairy produce at a Bay of Plenty port and consequent shipment from this port would relieve transport; to Auckland and assist in relieving congestion there.”