Rongotea Butter Factory.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 33, 7 August 1896, Page 2

Rongotea Butter Factory.

The Rongotea butter factory has been the means of making the settlers around that township, and the milk of some 800 to 1000 cows during the season is manufactured there. By the courtesy of the chairman of the company (Mr Ransom) we are permitted to peruse a letter from a firm in England with whom they deal, and in it the writer states the company are the makers of the finest creamery butter in New Zealand ; that the butter has no " fishy " taste in it. He has made an offer to the company, which will probably be accepted, to take all their output for three years at a certain minimum price and on half shares of any extra sum. Mr Ransom mentioned the names of settlers in the neighborhood who have made a very good thing by milking, one settler having ilO a head per cow, and very generally the amount paid has equalled over £8 per head. He supplies the factory, and says it is the best thing he has been able to do from the land. The minimum price offered by the English firm would enable the factory to pay od per gallon for the milk. This experience is iv pleasing contrast to that of tbe suppliers of the Dairy Union, and it has led us to suggest whether it would not be possible for the suppliers in this district to make some arrangement to purchase the local creamery from the Uoion aud send the cream to Rongotea. There are difficulties as to trausit of the cicam on three days a week, but it is worth a thought. — Manawatu Herald.