NOT MUCH OF A BABY.”

Shannon News, 15 August 1922, Page 2

NOT MUCH OF A BABY.”

THE LINTON CREAMERY

The question of the Linton creamery '| being a payable proposition was | brought up at the annual meeting of I the Levin Dairy Company on Wednesday by Mr .1. W.‘Todd, who asked for a return of the business of the cream- j ery, stating that he was led to believe i it was a “baby” which the company ) was carrying oil its back. j The return was supplied by tlie sec- 1 retary (Mr Parsons), who stated thatj last season there were 15 suppliers at’ Linton, who had supplied 106,3541 b of hutterlat.. The amount paid the suppliers was £7,422 13/. The cost of landing the cream at the factory at Levin • was .89d per lb bufteri'at, Mr Broadbelt (the chairman): Not] much of a baby. Mr H. K. Walton: What was the profit last year?

The chairman said that was in the manufacturing account, which it was

not proposed to go into. Mr Lynch, of Linton, said he was sui’prised to hear Mr Todd speak as he had. “Some of us,” the speaker said, ‘have been shareholders ever since the company started, and long before Mr Todd had come to this district, Mr Todd should be about the last man to raise a question about the Linton creamery.” Mr Lynch stated that Linton had no one to represent it on tlie company, but on the whole everything was satisfactory. He claimed that Linton was not a burden to the company. Mr Todd stated that he only asked for the return for information and to see whether it differed from the information he had received.

The chairman: We have given you tlie truth.

Mr Jeff, of Linton, said in 20 years the number of shareholders had varied from 22 to 15, and the creamery had paid its way.

The chairman said when the company started 23 years ago it was the only co-operative concern on <the coast, and took cream from places up and down the line, including Linton. The system was not so satisfactory as it might have been, and the Linton people approached the company, with the result that the creamery was built lor them. “The Linton creamery 'has never been a burden,” said the chairman, “has never given us any trouble and never worried us. We have a moral obligation to Linton, and 1 would like to see us carry that out.” (Applause.)

Speaking later, Mr A. J. Gimblett, a director, said be regretted the directors had not been able to visit Linton as often as they should have done. Linton had been of much assistance to the company.