DOMINION DAIRY OUTPUT
A GRATIFYING- RECORD
Air W. AT. Singleton, chief of the Dairy Division has converted the whole of the dairy products to the basis of butterfat equivalent. The figures show that the production of liuttcr-fat per person employed was as follows: Butterfat. Increase. Year E). P-c----1- 2,513 1921- 2,789 10.96 1922- 2,761 9.84 1923- 2,853 13.50 1924- 2,997 19.24 1925- 3,223 22.12 “ These figures suggest that there is no general indisposition among the people engaged in the production of milk and cream to follow the ‘ca canny ’ or 1 go-slow ’ policy,” remarks Air Singleton. “'The increase per capita has doubtless been favourably influenced by the extension of milking by machinery, ft has also been similarly influenced by the improvement in the yield of the average dairy cow. The following figures, relating to the manufacturing phase, show an increasing output per employee in dairy factories. Per capita output. Increase. Year lb. p.c. 1920- 45,736 1921- 51.466 12.5 1922- 56,831 24.2 1923- 56,044 22.5 1924- 58,094 27 1925- 63,991 39.9
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1927, Page 3
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170DOMINION DAIRY OUTPUT Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1927, Page 3
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