TAMAKI DAIRY FARMERS.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 635, 24 May 1921, Page 5

TAMAKI DAIRY FARMERS.

OFFICIALS MEET SUPPLIERS. POSITION CLEARLY STATED. There was a large meeting of East Tamaki dairy farmers at the East Tamaki Hall on Wednesday eveninglast, when the directors and management of the New Zealand Co-opera-titve Dairy Company met the suppliers. Mr Dynes Fulton, of Tuakau, was chairman of the meeting, and there were also present Messrs R. McKenzie, of Maungatawhiri, one of the directors, E. E. Banks, of Mataih&ta, and A. J. Sinclair, assistant manager of the company., Mr Sinclair addressed the meeting, Wand stated in round terms that if some of the East Tamaki suppliers carried into effect their threat to form an independent concern, the result weald be that two factories would operate in the one district. The district was not large enough to support two factories and keep them going efficiently. In short, it would bo a set-back to the farmers from which it would take them some years to recover, and they would be in an awkward position during the next year or so, which the speaker anticipated would be an unusually hard o ;e. He reiterated the refusal of the N.Z. Co-operative Dairy Co.. Ltd., to hand over the local cheese factory and refused to reinstate the manager of the factory Nc' ble among the hardships which faced small co-operative concerns was ihe necessity of "collective bargaining” to effect a reasonable sale of tb produce of the industry. Mr Sinc>mr quoted figures which showed beyor •’ a doubt that dairy farmers hi the south of Auckland had secured great advantages through the co-opersf-'on of suppliers. The number of r?r.ws on the lists totalled more than 7"00. The company, he said, turned out 35 per cent of the whole outp'.y of the Dominion. The advantages . : manufacturing and marketing on large scale we,re' apparent to some extent even to the most casual obsf-'-. er. He pointed out other advant .*es that were perhaps not quite so apparent but, nevertheless, produced notable results. The company also proposed erecting a factory at Mm.”. ■ E-den to commence town supply, tfct- benefits of which were re-' ccg’Li-d by suppliers in and around the d strict, who were now sending thei: milk., to the city. Mi. IS. C. Banks detailed the difficulties encountered some years ago bv suuiff. co-operative concerns in his district,, and the-point of his statemeals taken as tM'v were from bUX ter c vperience carried considerable Y v/eipht Frequently the meeting became Jsivcly, and brought forth a number of enthusiastic int«"*ro*r«t.<v*s. Tim cor tout (on of several suppliers was that sufficient information regarding td-fi financial position of the Tamaki factcv had rot been furjficbrA. A rrv l.loyi of eon fid/"' re in Xho /v-.i .in-ri'r was tost on the voices. r f f ‘N.,nonj * v' (v pr>..i rl('<] that the matter- be until full betaUrw .~« «• r.s to the fiim-ncps of the East Tamaki cheese factory from its inception.