THE Kawhia Settler. FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1906. THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 254, 13 April 1906, Page 2

THE Kawhia Settler. FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1906. THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

The meetings that lately have been held in Kawhia, brought about chiefly by agents for the sale of butter working traebinery visiting here, have enable I a number of our settlers to de cide on a definite course of action. At these meetings it was made clear that if all action is to be postponed until there is uniformity of opinion through out the different districts abutting on the harbour on such subjects as when to start, the sits for fa?tory, creamery ▼ersU3 band sep trator, ’whether there Ihould Le one factory or more, the whole business would be indefinitely hung up. At. the praeent time there are a number of settlor* in a po ition to at once guarantee a considerable number of cows, and who c mil, if a factory was erected, start supplying milk next October. The information as to the exset number of cows that w mid be available for an immediate start was not before the meetings, but the minimum number was roughly estimated by those in a good position to form an opinion as between 500 and 600. It was also brought out at these meetings that owing to the scattered situation of most of .tbe would be sup pliers, and the want of roads, cream e ies for a time (except perhap4 at Pirongia West) were out of quoMion. i Them dterhas, therefore,resolved itself I into i bis, viz., that to be able to star* ' $ e > operative d dry fact try without delay the home separator flys-em must be alopUd, uh) that a canvass must at or.ee be Ulen to find out all who are willing to sipply cream under this system and the number of cows lhey can guarantee, and if the required number is obtained to proceed in the usual way to form a company. It was pointed out by the agents above te furred. te, t'M with a guarantee of 500 cow* the Let' ry could p® sorted

on paying lines, that tot least of 7|d per lb. fat ewild b£ reckoned cm, the .greater tba jpumbe* of cows the more the working, expense* would be reduced and conj^piently batter returns to lift; suppliers. It was mentioned $t the meetings that, at any rate for a time, this movement would probably not be supported by the Kinohaku peopl4, ufaless the factory were established in B, cleiwly gtfoWu kM*. th'’ sites available at Kinohaku are a? suitable as those that might be ob talned along the beach from the.,p«e' sent Kawhia wharf southward ; t.be shipping utilities there would not be* JML madias-; good as those on the Kaivhia Imch, Jactjroullbe a 0? ? D ‘ larger boats tramd We/ The ambition of the Kinohaku people to get • co operative of their own is quite understandable. We believe in the chan that “ barracks ” for his district and who does his best to advance its interest?, or what be thinks is its interests. It is a sentiment by no means peculiar to Kinohaku—lbis feeling of esprit de corps among the peopls.of different districts.. We plead guilty to the soft impeachmeat ounselvos, only with us it is the County and not for -any particular district within the County. But milking cows is largely a matter of £ a. d , and we have sufficient faith in iha common sense of the Kinohaku people to believe that if it can be shown—and it ca.n be shown—that one large cen tral factory taking the whole supply from the settlers who live within reasonable distance from the harbour, will give a return of a -jd to Id more per lb. of butter fat than two or throe smaller concerns, then this sentiment will go down the bigger mi\j cheque. It is not a question of Pirongia or Awfcroa or Kawhia versus Kinohaku. It is, we assert, a question of £ s. d., and the people who have to rise early to milk cows are not going to allow sentiment to interfere with the milk cheque. At any rate the matter is now left in the hands of a few gentlemen who are promoting the butter industry in our midst. They will personally wait on the settlers and supply information and details and carry with them a definite programme, and ask those willing to support that programme for a guarantee of cows. If the necessary support is forthcoming, and we believe and most sincerely hope it will be, we may reasonably expect to see the Kawhia County as a whole make a big stride toward better times, and the stringency lately affecting the circulating medium here I relieved daring the next twelve months