NGATEA BUTTER FACTORY

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5122, 6 May 1927, Page 2

NGATEA BUTTER FACTORY

WEDDELL CUP WON.

IiEMAKKABLY HIGH GRADING.

Advico lias been received by Mr C. S. Foster, manager of the N-Z. Cooperative Dairy Company’s butter factory at Ngatea, that his factory has won the Weddell Cup, the most coveted trophy offered for competition between butter factories in Now Zealand.

It is understood that of all the butter from the Auckland province received at the Government grading stores for the 1926-27 season, comprising seven months ended April 30 last, the- Ngatea factory gained the highest grading average, 94.14 points. These figures constitute a record for a factory manufacturing the quantity made by Ngatea.

The Weddell Cup has only once before been won in this district and that was IS years ago, when the Pderoa factory gained the trophy. At that time Paeroa was only a small factory, and the. conditions attached to the trophy were very much easier. Last year . Ngatea gained fifth place, and the previous year it was only .03 per cent, behind the, winner.. The cUp is usually won by small factories because there are greater opportunities for obtaining higher grading than when a factory has a large output. It is quite possible that never before in the Dominion has there- been such consistently high grading over ri whole season. Hearty congratulations are due to Mr Foster and his staff, who have won high honour for the factory and themselves, and such a meritorious performance redounds to the credit of the whole district.