DAIRY COMPANY MEETINGS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 891, 10 August 1910, Page 10

DAIRY COMPANY MEETINGS.

.A PROFITABLE SEASON. Most {dairy companies aro. now holding tJioir-.- '"annual 'meetings, " and nearly all report a very satisfactory season. It is noticeable, that the /question'-'bf pasteurising* has boon dis•Cussed at'almo'st Vveiy'inecting held. ■ ... The annual report of tho 'Whcnuakura (South Taranaki) Co-operative Dairy Uornpany,. stated:— to 'the credit of/.'profiM.. ancl'-' loss, after writing off £313' 19s:' sd'. for depreciation, the sum.of £875 15s. lOd., and out of which your directors recommend the payment." of a bqnus.'.qf-'ld. .per lb. on butter-fat suppliedduriugtho'season, which 1 will I .absorb-'£725 lOs.V'and bring ;fcheprice:paidior t-heseason up to ; 10Jd. -.per.lb.';.the balance left''to the credit of tho account tib' be'carried 7 'forward "to -next*yeiir;'?r> '•:'.■;■; -V .- M •At the meeting,-general .-satisfaction ,was expressed at ,{he, success'.which Had ■ attended 'the past-year's , ' operations, and in- : the careful Mr. Symes introduced the question of installing skim-miljf!pasteurisers at factories and creameries, and moved a --"motion; favouring ,thcir< adoption. Mr. Gray moved an amendment, that; the matter be hold over for twelve months, the ainemltUMit being,carried by a largo majority. r ■■'..- ; ' NORMANBtV The thirteenth annual meeting ol sh.areholderS;of-.the,Normanby Co-opera- , t-i'ye Dairy 'Company' Was h'eld 'on Friday. 'The annual'reriortC'statcd 'that it had .been decided t ,to;pay,<..-!Jd. extra over the whole season; 'bringing. tho total . payments to llsd.' '• The receipts for the season's output 'amounted"to £18,984. Suppliers numbered 44, with 1620 cows, the average ■ yield'of-buttei>fat per-tow .being 2181b'., and th'e 'monetary .'return'per cow of £10. 4s. 4d. The jayerage price for butter was'll;2lj4;,T<!pst;of manufacture ,87d., cost of'marketing , -1.38d., and the overran was 14.34. The chairman stated that it was his intention to~ ask..the..directors to-take into consideration.tho..advisableness of going in>for-pasteurisation, of whey. The expense;* of installation would : bo practically nothing. ELTHAM, f The following report will be presented to the eighteenth annual .meeting of the shareholders jiinVfche?B;ltham;. Dairy Factory Company,' Ltd!:—."Your directors have. again the> pleasure <of. placing before you a ; statement' of the year's transactions. During the year we received 44,456,7751b. of milk, producing 1,668,947.741b". of butter-fat and 1,931,5201b., or 862 tons 2cwt. 2qr. 241b. of butter. The increase in the output of butter, over the previous year was-73 tons lOcwt. lqr. lflb.' The average test . .was 3.749.per cent, ■and ) 23.011b.. of milk rriade'one , pound of ; btit'ter':-'The ovor(runv of. thfl : butter over the test was '-15T87'percent., The total cost of manufacture, including charges f.o.b. ocean.liner, was £10 4s. lOd. per ton, or- 1.09 dl per lb. The averago price paid to suppliers for butter-fat was 10.78 d. p.er;-lb:fVan.d,the balance in hand "on (realisation will make a further pay..ment. possible of 0.82 pence per lb." ■