THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1925. NGATEA FACTORY’S FEAT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4830, 15 May 1925, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1925. NGATEA FACTORY’S FEAT.

Very great credit is due to the N.Z Co-op. Dairy Company's Ngatea butter factory for the splendid record achieved in securing second place in the’ Weddel Cup competition for the highest grading average in the Auckland province for the season’s butter output. The record of 49,000 boxes of butter with an average grade of 93.700 points is a very meritorious one, and thougn great credit is due to the winner of.the competition, the Kaitaia Dairy Company, which secured an average .056 per cent, higher, it shnild be taken into consideration that the output of that company was only 17,000 boxes, or two-thirds less than that of the Ngatea factory. The detailed results of the competition are as follows, points being for the highest average of grading points for the season from October 1, 1924', to April 30, 1925: Kaitaia Dairy Company, 93.756 points, 1 ; New Zealand Cooperative Dairy Company, Ngatea, 93 700 points, 2; Pippio Dairy Company, 93.585 points, 3; Waitanguru Dairy Company, 93.251 pointe, •!; Oruru-Fairburn Dairy Company, 93.204 points, 5. During the last few years the Ngatca factory has been building up for itself a reputation for the high quality of its output, and long ago it proved the falseness of the contention current when dairying was in its infancy in tiie district that the country was not suitable for high-grade dairy produce production, and that good butter could not be produced from its swamp lands. The recent record again demonstrates that such statements were a libel on the district of Hauraki Plaints, and were merely excuses. There are certain handicaps militating against the high grading of produce from the district. The distance cream has to be transported, the lack of a fresh ivater supply, the absence of refrigeration on the boat to Auckland, and tiie time that elapses from when the butter is taken from the cool rooms ol the factory until it reaches tiie cool rooms of the grading store are only some of the factors. This achievement is therefore all the more noteworthy, and betokens a very high standard of workmanship in the factory, great cooperation between factory and supplier, and great care on the farm, road, and boat. The reputation of the Ngatea factory is shared by the whole of the district, and it therefore behoves everyone to assist so that greater honours may be won. The Ngatea factory has entered butter for the championship of the world. Should this be secured the far-rcacnHig effect can hardly be imagined.