HOW TO EXPLOIT THE REAL CHEESEMAKER.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1919, Page 9

HOW TO EXPLOIT THE REAL CHEESEMAKER.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,--Your representative was present at the annual meeting of the Lepperton Dairy Com-I-any held on the evening of August 25th, and there subsequently appeared a very fair report of wjiat took place there; but in order to bring home to cheese factory suppliers generally, and morep articularly to the Lepperton suppliers, the force of my contention that all surplus fat should be paid foi 1 at whey butter prices—and no more—l beg to ask leave to make a few further remarks. The fat that is extracted from the whey and afterwards sold at Is 4d per lb. cannot in the nature of things havo a higher valuo than it is worth. To assert that it has is mere childish nonsense, yet our directors claim that they are acting in the interests of the suppliers in buying surplus fat at Is lOd per lb. and selling tho same after manufacture at Is 4d per lb, thereby throwing away Gd per lb. on tho whole output of whey butter. As our whey butter amounted to 11,520 lbs. it will be seen that cur directors threw away £2BB (which rightfully belonged to the general supplier) for absolutely nothing at all. The total interest paid by the company £or the year is given in the balance-sheet as £284 tis fid, that is £3 13s (jd less than what they paid away to hightesting suppliers for values that did not exist. Was it any wonder that the chairman complained that tlie.ro was a leakage somewhere? Here was a very considerable leakage, which I .considered it was my duty to point out; but the chairman was far from grateful. tie asserted that I had called them "robbers" and now wanted to be a robber myself. I still maintain that it is nothing but robbery of the general supplier 1o take the wealth which fie has created by supplying cheese-making materials and then throw it away for values In surplus fat that do not exist. It is quite right to pay full value for the surplus fat; but, it is quite wrong to pay tid per lb. more than it's full value. Here we have £2BB earned by the men who supply the cheesemaking materials, but refused to them, though created by them, thrown away to the suppliers of superfluous fat, for vajues in that fat that do not exist.—l am, etc. ■T. O. TAYLOR, Lepperton, Sept. 8, IUI'J.