DRIED MILK INDUSTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1918, Page 8

DRIED MILK INDUSTRY.

\ MtfcUMlON SY TARANAKI DAIRYMEN. At Ibe ceocluslon o( the formal business at the NatUmal Dairy Association's meetine at lam a Thursday, lir. T. Mills reminded 'Dhh prseeat that a year or two ago a comSrittee iu act up to obtain all information yoMtbk concerning the manufacture of (agar «f milk. Had any report been furnished? be chairman: Not that I am a wits of. Xr. Mills: Do 70a remember a committee Ml VP? Jf S» chairman replied that he nndcntood a NMMee was US at a meeting at which ' Mil ImMI waa chairman air. Fowdrell remarked that endeavors bad bats made to get the Information, bat there Mn( e»iy oaa concern in New Zealand en- > (and in the business and as tber were doing my waU. it was impostlhle to get any information froai them. The Dairy Division was ■Mb endeavoring to gain information, but so ftt Batting of cooaeqoence had been recelTed |M tta. Mr. Marx said that this was a most important matter, and ho mi(ht mention that his fiahpeny was harlng a meetlnc within the . Mpt pm dais to consider it People were at (tarn blst Juit now orer the dried milk busiHn, aad U would be as well to let farmers DM what waa being dons aa soon as possible. Cettala * Information had been collected that twi*l' be before his company, but he would not traverse it aow in anticipation of Mi owa.eompany's meeting But at that meetlac ka 4M not see any reason why the fullest yabßaM should not be'given to It. and he felt that Ike representative of the dairy compaalaa In Taranakt should meet together aad IMaolkiy discuss the present position. The wMe out loot and the financial aspect would - bare to be carefully considered, and it was a mm important matter, upon which- they were •it equally interested, aad in regard to which they (Mid be of-great assistance to each other. Mr. Mills expressed pleasure at the fact that ' ("at least «oe company bad been marlng to oblate Soma Information that should be of Inlanat aad Taiue to them. It waa a pity that - the lutamlimi appointed by the National Dairy . Jaaartatliai had not beatiii'ed themselves long Ki to seam the Information not only through pa Dairy BMaton, but froai outside New Zealand. Had they done so it would hare been YCff ninftUt to-dtj, Mr. Vocsyth aald that lie happened to Iw one a( the waalttw referred to by Mr. Mills, and hai could tali the meeting that it was particularly hard to get any reliable Information, fwfte Jnt DOW had the dried milk and sugar m mlik ferer, and farmers were going to ask taiellwi at the dairy factory companies' meetings what the directors were doing in the Way at endeavoring to. secure the highest price far their protects. Be realised that they bad ./been slow— (M tolce: Especially the committee)—but he waa quite satisfied that rery little Information could be-gamed in Mew Zealand, aad they would hare to go elsewhere for it. Sad they Spent £U,OM. £15,H0, or even SIMM, two years ago on this matter, they ' Would hare reaped a hundred-fold to-day, and he wss,*a tailed that they would hare to Investigate America, London and the Continent te gala complete information.. Be was glad that Mr. Mills bad mentioned tola matter; bad 1 'ha pet done ao he (Mr. IXxsyth) would hare 1 tvPKbt it up. He waa satisßed that if the < eo-apentlve dairy companies in Taranaki did aqt more in It. somebody else would. But flwy mast not rush Into either dried milk or sngar ef milk until they had secured the most cmpieu tnformation possible. Mr. Powdrell added that hia own factory had aßdearored to get Information on those lines, tat without much auceesa. In his opinion Tagaaakl must do aa the Walkato had done— ] they must aend two or three of their best representative* to America and England to find •« all there was to be learned. When the representatives of the Walkato went to the' flatted States the American people declined at •at l« gin them an}- information. They asked who they were and why they had come to f erica, and when told by these men that they I cose from .NVor Zealand representing corative dairy companies, they were amazed I Kew Zealand farmers should hare sent them lt,H4 milts to learn about dried milk, aad lh«y straightaway gare them all the In- ; Bmiaatioa possible. ' Had the:; same people beat communicated with by letter. In all prob»the letter would simply bare been into the wsste paper basket. It was ••IT reason aOie to suppose that :lu Walkato people. aho had gone to inch csne.-je to soware their iaformatHm and 1.1 i-'iliicry, would % MB w instal their own plain before impartial their kaowlnlge to <.:horj. n would prob•M? taUttaa «rer a lo jet their plants j tmt. nd boilers were most difficult to pro--0»y to* factories would require three P*KOO Ufiitra. aud etrb was coin; to'cost £TMt* »{prt froru (Ue ciilmney or. WlW?» cadi. MatangJ would reaulre §wi» (A roice; al- ~ 82?' f"* '2 f " 1 d P l *" l * "> "Kttoaw *zuU b* as uothing compared with ; tte saving itf, would effwt. la the cue of w« bsopakearai factory, ullotrlng cheese at Zs ptr n>totierfat arid dried aklm milk at 3s the diferaafa would represent £S!.OCO in th* t**t. The fftt thing, 1 u ,>evcr. for the datoy «a"Wa«ma ••» *» «i 10 :>ttiroach the Gonrn•aeat aad aafwain if t!w> would ensi any aMotaaca ar allow Hie couipanics to go. into «he Industry, Mr pil:creit from (lie remarks tWltlaWer at the rcccut liisquet that thef men ntlwr agalust "lie dried milk scheme |ea yet It would, novv'rer. I't unfair if ■bar debarre•' n>-opcraU>e ilatrj rompanlea /rum aagKiac in Ihis uiaiaus and allowed M tbo kx llR.» frai<iawnr (Marat lo do •* to t»» Awjsut •» u< uparallre "com■UMi Mr Ibast taU ibat Ull National Dairy As-, aoetsilM had cal-iai ui Vlr. Kllison. and 4 vevir 'a-I bem recdiaC Iran trim 10 tile 4ffarx aaai the vami ant fur skliamed Aift au fram ll9a U* IT|i per cwt , aad fee nww " ** •"*'** "" M Ml raw«lr»n iMalndM u<» meeUag that Um ' Mem W 0 a Manknald had told them that I r we«*.Mi.e m«U shunlr tranaslre or lataest. , and M M Uui be waa raterdag to the t •»**': * f eo*itroi. I Is *hi x« thai the pro pec course i h-n 411 the iKirr fac- • T.r.«ai t» ft, •" * 4 JUieffM;/

' lib* Gorcruufit. and ascertain If they would , be likely to allow ibe financing of an enterprise which would take probably bait a mlllion. If the Government did nnctlon such a propossl then delegates could tie (elected to Co abroad and Investigate. th. 1(111* pointed oat that the Minister appeared to be under the 'mprestlon tbat the snggnstwi aew enterprises meant (crapping the | preeeot Industries, but that was not so. Hs ' waa overlooking the sugar of milk question. Should developments take place alo$? the 1 lines now talked of It would .probably be la the direction of butter factories taking up the dried milk business, and cheese factories adding the sugar of milk to their existing business. He thought the tenor of the suggestions 1 made as' to their immediate procedure were 1 in the reverse order. Before they went to the Gorerament they should complete a definite ' business proposition, and in order to be able to do this they should be in possession of all possible Information. The sanction of the Government to embark upon these new undertakings would really depend upon the proposals that the dairy people were able to place before them. Then, should the Covernment refuse to sanction it, their work would be wasted; the set-back could be regarded as only temporary, and the information would still be of great value. Mr. Marx considered that If the dairy companies had a sound commercial proposition no Government could stand long in their way. If these suggested new enterprises were reasonably certain to be sound, the co-operative dairy companies could not' afford to be without them, otherwise proprietary concerns would come along and supersede them. The dairy companies, and not the Government, were the people to be satisfied as to the soundness of these enterprises. Mr. Connett reminded the meeting that Just at present at all ereqts, the dried milk pro- 1 position was up against some difficulties. For example, a great deal more coal would be required for the boilers, and coal was becoming increasingly difficult to secure. It was a question, too, whether the Government would permit dairy companies to relinquish cheesemaking, and the extra milk cart traffic that would go oTer their roads would be a con--1 sideratton. At this stage the discussion dropped.—Star.