PROPOSED DAIRYING AMALGAMATION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 883, 1 August 1910, Page 10

PROPOSED DAIRYING AMALGAMATION.

PKINCiPAI. WAIKATO COJIPANIES.' ~:,IBy TclCErapni—Special ./Cprrcsoonconi., , 'U;v/ ;;';;Auckiandj,'Juiy 31. The proposal that the New Zealand Dairy;-Association (a co-operative' con'.'cern| shall 'purchase ■ the"''Proprietary busin'css:'.of/Mcssrs/,,Ambury; aud English,.!? beiii£'.submitted to!t|ie suppliers ;intore.sted/,,;:1t .has/;;bcen;:',adopted by thos'e-at Te;Awamutu'-'auid Matamata, subject to confirmation by; ballot.. This, if;'adppted,/will "unite the two. main dairying. businesses in the'Waikato.' ...The managing 'director./of tho- : New Zealand Dairy. Association;. (Mr.. Wesley Spragg) told the -.Matamata suppliers that; at "present there iwas mt(ch: overlapping and much consequent waste, the cost of-which was inevitably/borne by the dairying fanners;' , There /was double, treble, and quadruple management'of what might better "betcpntrolled by ...one -management.'"'' That meant increased /cost, /borne'..by thef/milk ;'pro_d.up.exs.;':i'The.f.sahie'/appUed''''tb .factory IvworK,... while 7 .; the,, pooling.lof /.creamery supplies in some, districts would at once -'decrease: creamery^"-costs. ■;. ':;.■■;Mr. <Spragg r ,-said -i that.ligains from' increased business had ' been' thrown, away, owing to needless, competition. •They-;would;understand' that where the 'busiriess 1 'wasr'bwn'ed-'under, pure, unmixed., co-operation' •• the, savings went . directly, into . tho .pockets'.', of'the milk, producers.;' Particularly 'in' the economy to.be effected in--manufacturing lay the reason'for .extended co-operation. The Ambury and..-English Company was' a proprietory,, and,.thb//proprietors were .entitled; to payment; for/their enterprise. Co-operative ownership' would divert: that./profit into-the. pockets of the new proprietors, arid Mr. Ambury was willing,' under ■ the- circumstances, that it should be so diverted.