Pohangma Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 148, 3 June 1893, Page 2

Pohangma Notes

• A very successful meeting was held at r Pearson's Forge on Thur day evening. ■ Mr Darlinsj, representing the Provincial • Farmer*' Co-operative Association, hay- , ing been invited to set before our > people tho objects of the Association with regard to tho dairy industry, was s present. Mr E. Hopkins took the ohair, s and introduced Mr Darling, who said r the Association was strictly upon co-op- ' erative principles, the voting power will , be confined to milk suppliers, and to ow , ncrs or leas-rs of rural land in the colony. • Separate accounts will be kept of each i factory or orenmcry, the milk te3ted and « valued to each supplier according to its b quality ;3d per gallon payable monthly, b and tho subsequent profits divided among 1 the supplying members as bonus. The 9 mmimooi autahet of cow 3 required is 200. b and 120 shares must bo taken up locally. c The directors agreed that, if desired, they would only require the 5s on ap* 4 and 5s on allotment in cash, the remaining 20s could be deducted from the milk as supplied. Guarantee of cows to be made good for 5 years. The cen t tral factor}* to be in Palmerston. The . directors meet there on June 20th, and s application* for district creameries must - be laid before them then, they will be dealt with and erected to be ready for 1 work in September or October. Fifty j shares were taken up, and 75 cows guar- . anteed. Mr Sinclair was authorised by the meeting to canvass the district for 1 further support, and to report at a meett ing to be held on Thursday next, at the same place