STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1916, Page 3

STRATFORD.

PROSPEROUS DAIRY COMPANY. (From our own Correspondent.) Stratford. Yesterday: Tlie balance-sheet of the Stratford Dairy Company, to be discussed at the annual meeting on Monday, July 31, shows that the company have had a record year. The milk received amounted 3!),4G3,52t)1b5, compared with 33,6(12,903 lbs in 14)1.3. The average test was 3.93. compared with 3,94 in 1915. Butter fat 1 <534,30211)3 (1,331,390); butt or maniifactured, 1,513,3291bs (1,550,7451b5); overrun, 10.0 (11i.9), while the cost of manufacture has decreased from 1.09 to 1.00. The average amount paid for butter fat for the vea;' v;as 10,54 d per lb. The sale of butter amounted to £118,052 10s 9d, and there is .' till a balance of £20,941 14s 7d to be distributed to supplies, and £OOO has been donated to the Patriotic Fund. Altogether, the shareholders should be pleased with this year's balance-sheet, and the care taken by the popular chairman (Mr. R. Dingle) and his director' in presenting such a satisfactory balance-sheet. STRATFORD ELECTRICAL SUPPLY COMPANY'S PLANT. i The valuers for the Borough Council and the * Electrical Supply Company, Messrs R. E. Shepherd and J?. Black, in their report on the valuations of the company's undertaking, stated that the plant, generally, was found to be in good order, well maintained, and a credit to the engineer and bis stall'. It is capable of giving service for many years. It having been represented to them that the company's single phase plant was obsolete, they remarked that this opinion was based upon a misconception and did not have sufficient regard to the conditions which apply to the undertaking. For towns where'no considerable demand for industrial motor power exists, it is anticipated a single phase supply was neither obsolete nor unsuitable. While there were certain' advantages in the three phase supply for motive power, there was also more complication in the plant, and unless the power demand in a town was likely to become important, the single phase svstem meets the smal| demand in a sufficiently satisfactory way. As to the pressure supply where lighting is the chief class of business done, the consumer did not get any different quality of light on the higher pressure, nor did it make any very notable saving in copper street-mains, where, as in Stratford, transformers are in frequent use. If it were found that 230 volts were required, instead of 100 volts, alterations would not be required to the company's generating plant, but only to transformers, meters, lamps and apparatus, and to a certain amount of house wiring. Therefore, the present system should not be regarded as obsolete. RECRUITING. The deliyy of the Defence Department ill giving notice to recruits that they have been accepted, or otherwise, is anything but satisfactory. To-day a young fellow called on the late recruiting secretary, and informed him that lie had enlisted in May last, and stated he would be prepared to leave in July. Not noticing bis name in the published list o: those who were entraining oil Monday next, he wanted to know the reason of the delay, and on communicating with the Group Ofliee at Hawera, discovered for the first time that he had been turned down as ''medically unfit." This young fellow assures "your own" that this is the first intimation that he had received from the Defence Department and 'he asks, and with good reason, why the Department could not have sent him the information months ago.