PROGRESS OF DAIRYING

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2380, 9 February 1915, Page 8

PROGRESS OF DAIRYING

;IN SOUTH TAEANAKI. , ' " (By.tTelegraph.—Special Oorroepondentl . > •. Pateaj February 8.. i '. The.-development.of the dairy ,indusi try tip, South, Taranala is. fully; loflectcd !- .- .:Un the returns-of this .'port of Pate-a, !•• cheose factories being particularly inj• 'tereisting. . 1 Last >ear the operations of the West !.. Coast Refrigerating Company constit tutcd a record in spite of the strike and t: other drawbacks; this year.there is , ; every promise of all previous records i; 'being easily exceeded.' . *. - For the twelve; months ending Jinie 'last tho numbpx of cases of cheese put i v (through the works iras 163,507. This ' ';yoar'tor the seven months ending Jani 'Uarj .31 last no fewer than 131,629 f-.-rv cases'had been handled. Theso figures ; ,'aro really big,• and sure to show what ;.' -tho dairying .industry means'.to South Taranaki. -. _ ■ . j , ! At'tho prices being realised at Home, |- v ■ thopresent season!soutput represents i' • • a yaluo of' over £800,000. .What this, .sum means 'the average, person scarcely realises, but a local statistician with !r..•MmSvoriginality. works it.out as'.folI. lows:—lf it were m shillings, and these ? ! / were placed, side by side, they would ! .•;! t reach a distance of over 260 miles or t some three miles farther than, from New ( Plymouth;' to;; Wellington. .'■ Placed toi•: ,'gcther in a row six deep they '.would t make a silver pathway sis inches- wide i ifroni tho Wangariui Railway Station to ?-- Patea. , The weight 'of cheese iteelf re- [ ■ presents close on 10,000 "tons, whilst ... ,tho milk utilised-in the making of it ! ' ■ > would be something in tho neighbouri tood of 100,000 tons.