DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1863, 18 September 1906, Page 2

DAIRY INDUSTRY.

PRESS ASSOCIATION

Elthatn, last night In oonscquenoe of tbo growth of tbo dairy industry in South Taranaki, iko box manufacturing oompany of Eltham btwo bad to reconstruct and oousidorably 0 n largo tboir faotory. Work waa roauniod in tho new premiaea this morning. qq, 0 altorationa wore rnado during tbo off eoa son. An entirely new installation of iho bast prcoorable and most up to d alo maobinory was put in, and it ia expeotnd that this plant will enabla tho Company « 0

keep paca wt,h tho increasing reouirp ments of the trade. Tbo output last y for local butter and ohuoeo factories was fifteen hundred boxos por day. The new factory, whtoh is tho largest and bn equipped of its kind in tho colony 0 ?,

produoß lw° thousand five hutnli fioiahed buitor boxes and ohoosn oases day. In ooonection with thn now a iarge brick budding i„ being ereeted the storage of. timber. This will the Bitham Company to hare thonmeS dry material aiwtys available. Tiitu-ti I at present B 4 butter aud oheese oomnan ie« in Taranaki chiefly in «ha snuhnTpl* tion of the provinoa receiving their 1, plies of buxoa from Bitham f. i0 torv It, estimated that about two hum! ed sixty thousand b, s ■« will he nquirul L ihoen ooinp’tniea tins season. Already the L i ham D. try Company, in the oponine weeks of the season, are tnanuf nn ut lnt 11,10 1,1,1 »*“» a half of butter per d.,v " n B prospects in other local factories 111 epooutogtug, u “ e# me