Must the Creamery Go?

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43099, 1 June 1907, Page 2

Must the Creamery Go?

In a communication recently addressed to a Waikato paper, a gentleman who is fully conversant with the ins and outs of the dairying industryin the Auckland province points oat that if Mr Rosser’s proposals are seriously entertained, and the rates of pay and conditions of service ha stipulates, become 1 general, the creamery managers would effectually cripple the industry in whioh they are engaged, and limit both their occupation and emoluments. “To begin with,” he says, “all the smaller creameries which at present are being worked at very small advantage to the suppliers or to the companies to which they belong would he shut up. Such creameries could not stand being loaded - with practically double expenses for creamery managementThe shutting down of these small places would probably have an element of advantage in it, as it would in some cases concentrate supplies in centres and thus effect economy, That it would seriously damage the struggling settler in the back blocks, goes without saying. It would make impossible the market now open to him in the shape of the small creamery, which is the standby and hope of himself and his half-dozen pioneers. Its influence upon creamery managers would be that the industry would dispose of the services of, say a third of them, which would enable less valuable men to be weeded out. They would then have an opportunity of veturning to the farm work from - which they have been taken.”