RICHER THAN WAIHI MINE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 747, 21 August 1929, Page 10

RICHER THAN WAIHI MINE

MORRINSVILLE-MATAMATA DISTRICT WEALTH FROM DAIRYING (From Our Own Correspondent J MORRINSVILLE, Tuesday. “The dairy output for the year for the Morrinsville district should be greater than that of the Waihi goldmine in its palmiest days,” says a prominent dairy official. Returns from the various companies of the Morrinsville, Matamata and Putaruru districts show that the total tonnage of dairy produce from those districts totalled 17,165 tons, of a value of £1,552.000. This is an increase of 2,287 tons, and nearly £250,000 over the previous season. There are 12 factories operating, while proprietary companies and outside cooperative concerns also draw supplies from this fertile district. The details of the tonnage are: Butter, 5,592 tons: cheese, 3,594 tons; milk powder and condensed milk, 4,639 tons; cream to Ngongotaha factory, 339 tons.

The following are the factories and their output:—N.Z.C.D.C.. Morrinsville (butter), 1,650 tons; Morrinsville Co-operative Co. (butter), 1,212 tons; Tatua Co-operative Co. (cheese), 32S tons; N.Z.C.D. Co., Waitoa (butter, milk powder and condensed milk), 5,0G9 tons: Norfolk Co-operative Co. (cheese), 471 tons; N.Z.C.D. Co., Kiwitahi (cheese, whey butter), 209 tons; N.Z.C.D. Co., Waharoa (butter and milk powder), 4,654 tons; Hinuera Cooperative Co. (butter), 665 tons; N.Z.C.D. Co. (cheese and whey butter), 912 tons; Tokoroa Co-opera-tive Co. (cheese), 295 tons; Sunny Park Co-operative Co., Te Poi (cheese, butter and whey butter), 652 tons; N.Z.C.D. Co., Te Puninga (cheese), 199 tons; Putaruru, cream to Ngongotaha factory), 339 tons. USE OF FERTILISERS None the less interesting than the dairy returns are the official railway figures of fertilisers carried to the stations in the district within the 12 months. They are as follow:—Matamata, 14,929 tons; Putaruru, 11,966 tons; Morrinsville, 10.959 tons; Waitoa, 6,204 tons. The only other station in the province which handled over 10,000 tons was Cambridge. The fertiliser figures show how much the generous use of fertilisers is hound up with the prosperity of the Waikato. The all-round increase for various stations is over 10 per cent. TE AROHA DISTRICT FIGURES OUTPUT OF £1,577,113 (From Our Oivn Correspondent) TE AROHA, Today. An endeavour has been made to arrive at some approximate value of the output of the dairy factories operating around Te Aroha. The figures, as near as they can be given at present, are as follow: Waitoa Factory.—Butter, £292,992; milk powder, £83,690; condensed milk, £47.867 10s. Total, £424,509 10s. Waihou (including Te Aroha West). —Butter, £ 252.240. Manawaru.—Cheese, £72,920. Te Aroha Dairy Company.—Butter, £ 3 50,240. Tatua.—Cheese. £61.389. Waharoa.—Butter, £504,000; dried milk, £45,815. The available total, therefore, reaches £1,577,113 10s, and does not include the returns for the Te Aroha West Glaxo and Bixie cheese factory, the Te Puninga cheese factory and one or two others further afield.