Dairy Co. Diversifying

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31119, 23 July 1966, Page 21

Dairy Co. Diversifying

(N.Z. Press Association) HAMILTON, July 22. A milk drying plant with a capacity of 60,000 gallons a day, expected to be in operation next month, will double the output of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company’s factory at Matangi. The factory will be one of the most diversified in the country. The general manager, Mr A. H. Woolven, said today the commissioning of the plant would mark the completion of a two-year, £350,000 development project at the factory. The plant, which would handle 30001 b of milk an hour,

[ would bring the factory’s daily processed output to 120,000 gallons in the flush of the season, Mr Woolven said. The first of two dairy produce export stores, each of about 100,000 square feet capacity, will be built by the company at Te Rapa by September, 1967. Mr Woolven said the stores would be near the new Te Rapa marshalling yards.

i Each would hold about i 10,000 tons of dariy produce, he said. They would provide . storage space for the Matangi and the new Te Rapa factories. “The first of them will be ready for use in September of next year, coincident with the provision of rail access by the Railways Department to the new marshalling yards,” he said.