The Dairy Industry.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 351, 28 June 1894, Page 2

The Dairy Industry.

RETUBN? FROM FACTORIES,, Mr Holstcad, geneml" manager- of the butter factories -inNthe^Pahiatua district, supplies the Herald 'with the following returns of the total quantity of milk received at the factories daring the season ending 31st May, 1894^- -

At 3d per gallon paid for it at the factories, this amount represents •an * expenditure of £5501 3s 3d for milk alone, divided amongst 76 suppliers. In* addition to this sum considerable amounts ot money have been expended locally amongst tradesmen, firewood suppliers, and others.

building in tbit BDSteTt— the others are of split stuff;^it^aS to be sledged for a considerable di^tScte. ;'"i"There was^ji^^ering of tiie clans " in our townshi|Ci>n Saturday, —rent day for Pohangibs^£V£; Association.. Mr, RoWit||6j| felling 100 acres of tmsn itf ttoo^jilislrary, attjl Mr Holmes < 20 acres^fbja^i&yet very little is under J axe, althougii'Vns is the season in which the Small Farm settlers must conituence their improvements. The new school in the Foxton Block has been built by the Wanganui Education Board, and is ready for a teacher. The twoand a-half miles of road line being cleared by the Labor Bureau will be about; finished this week. The terrace is nolKyet graded, a very necessary •work* It is rumoured that it is to be done. ' v The endeavors of the Railway Engineers to "straighten the course of the Pohangina, near the bridge, have been so far successful that there is every indication of the water leaving the bank at the riext freshet. Messrs B. Lyon and Son, of the Pohahgina road, have a bridge-building contract near Cheltenham . Some heavy pieces of maire in connection with it are being cut at the Victoria Mill. The Bunnythorpe Cemetery Trustees are about to get up an entertainment in aid of their funds, aud have offered to assist the Ashurst Cemetery Trustees in turn, if assistance is given them with some of Asburst's famed talent. The Ashurst Cemetery, ou the Feildlhgrbad, is still uufenced. In faot, it remains in thf^ same stato it was in whenthe^Emiwrant and Colouist's Aid Corporation donated it for the purpose of a Cemetery. It is an odd corner, and does not find favor iv the eyes of the ratepayers, or it would have been improved before now.

gallons. Mangatainoka ... ..* 130,622-, Makakahi ... 129,819 1 Ballance ... ... ... 179,652*-: Total ' ... ... 440,093