DALEFIELD CHEESE FACTORY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 182, 27 April 1908, Page 2

DALEFIELD CHEESE FACTORY.

' SOME INTERESTING FIGURES. : V . At; the end of June, .1907. (writes our Wairhiipa'.correspondent), this Daleimld•,Cheese Factory had been ill existence .twenty years. In, tlia-fc ..time it had. manufactured 10,409,254 lbs:; of cheese, weighing 4647 : toris Bcwt. Bqr. 221b,' , Averaging this from the ccmmericementja't's43 gives a return of about £199,839, or .something like,' £5991 19s. per year.- • The'first'ch'^ese. was made in 18.88,- when the out-' put. was'/nearly' 46 tons. ...In;tJie next,year it had dropped to 22i. tons, 'so'.'that, it will be ,'seen' that' the Dalefi&ld farmers in'those days had,, to, ; ,combat.'..ivith greater troubles than they have toyto-day.' The largest, output in/the history of tlio factory ..was that of : the year endcd v in June last, there wore manufactured just oil 389 tons of chocse. This y'oar, Mr.. J, MoncriefF,, the secretary, estimates the returri l 'ht 50 tons less, "or a total of 339 tons. Following'are particulars of the yearly returns 'in' pounds ''sineo; tho factory was .0pened1888,3.192,905;' .1889, 50:318: 1890,'269,677.; • 1891, §13;609;■ 1892, 319,840 " 1893, 250,234; 1894, : 319,218;. 1S05„ 394,729 1896, 530,537; 1897 r 534.849; 1898, 630.650; ■1000, 631,612;. 1901,'-.777J106;-1902 809:856 IPO3,■ 709,377; 1904, 751(951; 1906, 787,573 1907, 861,223; 1908-(estimated), 749,223. • ';