A Successful Industry.

Manawatu Herald, 28 July 1896, Page 2

A Successful Industry.

The Bongotea Butter Factory has been the means of making the settlers around that township, and the milk of some 800 to 1000 cows during the season are manufactured there. By the courtesy of the Chairman of the Company, Mr Ransom, we were permitted to peruse a letter from a firm in England with whom they deal, and in it he writes the Company are the makers of the finest creamery butter in New Zealand ; that the butter has no " fishy " taste in it. He has made an offer to the Company, which will probably be ac« cepted, to take all their output for three yeara at a certain minimum price and on half shares of any extra sum. Mr Ransom mentioned the names of settlers in the neighbourhood who have made a very good thing by milking, one settler having £10 a head per cow, and very generally the amount paid has equalled over £8 per head. lie supplies the factory, and says it is the best thing he has been able to do from the land. The minimum price offered by the English firm would enable the factory to pay three-pence per gallon for the milk. This experience is in pleasing contrast to that of the suppliers of the Dairy Union, and it has led us to suggest whether it would not be possible for the suppliers in this district to make some arrange* ment to purchase the local creamery from the Union and send the cream to Rongotea. There are difficulties as to transit of the cream on three days a week, but it is worth a thought. _^