SOUTH TARANAKI.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 245, 16 April 1912, Page 7

SOUTH TARANAKI.

I (From Our Own Correspondent). I The Kaupokonui Co-operative Dairy | Co. is exporting all its whey butter to | England, and it is bringing top price. Whey butter cannot be detected from milk butter, for it is made of fat just the same as the latter. The cream from the whey is just the same as cream from i the new milk, and the keenest palate could not tell one from the other. Grass is very plentiful and the mirk yields are far ahead of -other years for a corresponding period. This applies particularly to the land in the open and towards the sea. Pastures are green and show no sign of parching up, as is usually the case at this time of the year. The production of another by-product from the skimmed whey is commanding the attention of the Kaupokonui directors. I refer to sugar of milk. At its present market price sugar of milk would run into something like £90,000 on Kaupokonui's turnover. This would mean, roughly, allowing for expenses, which would be fairly costly, something like forty odd thousand pounds nett to be added to 'the pay-out. Rather romancing, it reads. On the present price of butterfat (roughly Is 2d), another 5d would be added, making Is 7d in all. If this could be obtained those who contend land is dear at £6O and £65 per acre would hold up their hands in horror to see it jump to perhaps £IOO per acre. The future of Now Plymouth as a port for the shipment of "the Waimate Plains' dairy produce is a debatable question here. At present Patea is practically the port, but it is worthy of notice that a shipping company whica has been trading there for some years is getting out. Whether it smelt a rat re New Plymouth being a formidable rival in the future is a query. Quite a dozen farms have been sold between Riverdale and Otakeho during the last fortnight.

The Rivevdale Company is paying out a bonus which will make payments up to about Is 2d for the season's butterfat.