Waiau Pa Dairying.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 170, 13 February 1914, Page 1

Waiau Pa Dairying.

[TO THE EDITOR. I * Sir,—i am not your Waiau Pa correspondent. At the same time the statement made by that corresp:ndent about home separation is absolutely correct, and I suggest that your correspondent is in a better position to know than two absentees like Messrs Ddl and Schlaepfer. Ihe position is this:—in the first ins'ance the creamery w: s not erected in the centre of the district

to give all the dairy farmers sn even chance, ar.d instead of bei g called the Waiau Pa creamt-ry it should be entitled the DJI- - creamery. 'lhe result is that a number of the Waiau Pa dairy farmers arj et.ut out from tte creamery altogether, a-,d are home-separating, and twothirds cf the present suppliers have decided, unless the creamery is re moved tc a mo:e central pout'on, ti go in for home s.Daration. Glen« brook creamery is paying lid, I believe, also Patcmahoe; Waiau Pa lOjd. Here's an eye-opener: Mr I. Clark's son is supplying milk to creamery, receivkg lOJd; Mr I. Clark is receiving about after paying freight to Auckljnd, and his neighbours are carting milk to the Waiau Pa creamery receiving, IOJd for butter-fat.

1 may add that 1 am not pertonally interested in this. Numbers of

the Waiau Pa settlers bave a-ked me to take a lead in having the creamery removed to a more cential position, presumably because at the time of iti erection I pointed out the mistake we were all making in having it erected where it is. 1 refused. My own dairying is home separation and our supply goes to the Dairy Association. 1 prefer co-operation to private enterprise and if the Dairy Afsociation cannot more than compete with private enterprise, then there must be something radically wrong with the directorate, and if required it's the business of the suppliers to see to this. Co-operation must pay the farmers better than privata enterprise, as in the former case tbey get it all. The Waiau Pa position is that the dairy farmers will supply the creamery if it is placed in a central position where they will have a fairly even chance of supplyirg. If not, the bulk of them will go in for home separation, In that reßpect your Waiau Pa correspondent is absolutely correct in stating that home separation is the topic of conversation. In fact, Sir, your correspondent is generally correct in statements made in your columns and should be encouraged to give us more.—l am, etc., J. W. McLAKIN, Senr. Kainui Estate.