CASEIN MANUFACTURE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1695, 11 March 1913, Page 8

CASEIN MANUFACTURE.

OFFER TO. THE BALLANCE COMI'ANY. " During a recent, visit -to Taranaki and Wanganui, -Mi:.. A, M'Farlane, chairman of the Ballauce 'Co-operative Dairy. Company, interested ;himself in "the matter of casein manufacture. ~H.e visited the Now Zealand "Casein Company's factory at Aramoho,!,and .also.inspected the casein plant at" Midhurst. - According to an exchange, "Mr." M'Farlarie says tlie New Zealand ;Qasein Company had made an offer td-nim,-asViepres'6niting the Ballance Dairy Company, of ,£58;10s. per ton for dried casein, the curd being railed from j'ahiatua. to, tho. Aramoho factory. The ■company, he said, was willing to pay all freight, on the casein .enrd. The -Casein Company stated that under certain condition* the price of JJIB 10s. per ton would l>o sufficient to pay a sum equal to 15 per cent, per annum oh the,cost of the erection and purchase of "the plant and build-, ings. That price would also cover working expenses, and would prove sufficient to pay the suppliers to the Ballance Company ljd. per lb. of butter-fat. The company's guarantee is . from September 1 next to May 31,1914." The offer; said Mr. M'Farlane, would b? placed by "him before the directors of tho company. The proposal -required, careful consideration. •