NEW ZEALAND DAIRY CO.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4461, 1 September 1922, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND DAIRY CO.

HUIRAU ROAD FACTORY. MEETING OF SUPPLIERS. Nearly 30 suppliers to the N.Z. Cooperative Dairy Company's Huirau Road cheese factory assembled at the factory yesterday to meet Messrs G. Buchanan, W. E. Hale (directors), A. J. Sinclair (assistant manager), anl W. Dixon (cheese superintendent). Mr A, H. Sutton was in the chair. Mr Sinclair said that the year before last, the factory niade 226 tons of cheese, bringing in £27,199. This year 266 tons of cheese were mad?, the price received being £lB,OOO, about £9OOO less for 40 tens more cheese- The crates were dearer than last year. Coal cost £3 5s per ton of cheese against £2 18s lOd last year. This was owing to the inferior quality of coal. Wages were £4 Is per ton of cheese during tihe past year. The Hui.rau Road flactory was the second highest in the company for whey cream. RECOMMISSIONING KOPU. It was decided to go on sending cream to the Ngatea butter factory till the end of September. The directors said they could recommission the Kopu factory within a month. The Ngatea factory may not be able to cope with all the supply, and if that was the case Kopu would be recommissioned. That meant that the cheese plant in the Huirau Road factory would not be used, the cream being sent either to Ngatea or Kopu, as the case may necessitate. ELECTRIC POWER. Mr Dixon considered that instead of installing another boiler it would be advisable to put in the electric power. Eletcricity would be cheaper. NO WINTER BONUS. It. was stated that the company had decided to divide tihe butter season into two periods, one from August 1 to April 30, and the other from May 1 to July 31. The company would then not make any bonuis for winter butter, but make a separate season of the winter and pay out what was’actually received for that butter. It was stated that a bonus woul 1 be given of 1.09 d, one penny of which would go to share capital. ADDITION TO PLANT. It was decided to insial a new separator imniediately, as the present plant was unable to cope with the supply.