Dairying Matters.
+-. Speaking of the business management of cheese and butter factories, in an address in the Marlborough Town Hall, Mr McEwon said his first impressions on arriving in New Zealand from Canada were not favorable, and they had not been changed. The prevailing system of paying for milk he did not approve, either on a proprietary or co-operative basis. There was too much speculation —in fact, it might be termed gambling — in paying for milk. The purchaser had to take his risks of the markets, and a fair and equitable proportion of the profit — or losses was out of the question. The proprietors of one of the factories in the North Island had, a short time ago, to ask for a rebate of their payment for milk, and several other like unsatisfactory arrangements in the course of the industry pointed to the weakness of the system. In the Canadian system, which took 35 years to build up, all the parties interested in the returns of the market participated equally in the profits—thereby carrying out pne of the fundamental principles of co-operation.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 75, 25 September 1895, Page 2
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