ROYAL ARMS CHEESE FACTORY.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1919, Page 2

ROYAL ARMS CHEESE FACTORY.

To the Editor. Sir,—Appearing in your well-circulated paper appears a letter under the heading "Midhirst Dairy Factories," the writer now having t.he high honor to bo noticed and mentioned by this correspondent 'signed by a non-de-plume, "Old Settler"), which certainly is a contrast with only a few months ago, when it was quietly circulated that this cheese factory concern in Midhirst was only a wee thing and would do no harm to the big co-operative established company for over 20 years. The writer now feels proud to see this wee dairy factory so successful and one of *lie prosperous industries of Taranakl worthy of a little bit of space recently appearing in your paper's Stratford Show supplement. It row appears that on "old settler" has been irritated so much as to -grab a pen and grasp a piece of paper to sproad his spleen pent up with mighty force and cry down with all his might, and stop progress in Midhirst Nellson's cheese factory must be curbed, If possible, and he, wl ! h other old settlers (should have read "fossils,") • will not allow the Midhirst Dairy Company to be smashed In reply the "smashing" sentence, I can only say that since I have commenced operations In Midhirst I have had no time for smashing anything. I have been too busy, building up and assisting many other settlers, old and young, to progress and also build up. Generally speaking anyone knows all over Taranaki that thero are a lot of things Tconiring building up. I do not wish to put a different meaning on "Old Settler's" correspondence since he has mentioned the Midhirst Dairy Company but must reply straight out that during the last three or four years "Old Settler," or old supporters, have been continually smashing away from tho Midhirst Dairy Company as fast as they can, and smashing into progress and prosperity ever since they left. As *'old Settler" mentions names, the latest smash away from iio old company, I mean Radnor road settlers, who now have their own co-operative cheese factory company, and the writer who previously was the owner heartily wishes them to pay out for butter-fat a record price per pound, small as they arc, I wish them good luck, and It will be no shock to myself to see at the end of the year that *hey have paid more for butter-fat than myself and tho big Midhirst Dairy Company. So far they havo done so, with their progress payment of Is Bd, and received back good cheese*, whey for their . pigs and calves, wh'ia Midhirst Company have' i paid only Is 7d and returned casein whey. Note tho difference, not forgetting my own suppliers. At the factory so harmful the pay- • out has been this seasou so far Is 10% d, ac- = tually received, not promised, in one year's - time or later, but straight into their hand on the 20th day, after delivering their month's milk. If "Old Settler" will add 10 per cent, interest to this Is 10%' dhe will find that It is better than Is 10% don a promlso nay- 1 ment, say In 12 months' or two years' time. As "Old Settler" does not like to admit progress recently in Midhirst he also does not like to admit or correctly place the true facts before people Interested in the correspondence which he has entered into, namely, the Daily News, which plainly printed that Radnor road ©ttiout wquM be about 90 tons of

as stated by "Old Settler," 280 tons, and "Old Settler," who does not know cows from tons of cheese, mentions 1500 tons, although the' paper said in the report plainly 1500 cows. Since "Old Settler" knows so much about the above, he also knows everything about my business, especially the amount I paid last season. "Old Settler" says Is' 9%d, yet I have the proof of paying Is lOd per pound for butter-fat. Can "Old Settler" contradict and prove that Mldhlrst Dairy Company paid Is lid per pound last season. November's Dairyman says "Is 9%d, plus casein, was Midhirst Dairy Company's pay-out." Anyhow, that is that company's business, 1 ,mlud my own factory business, as owners manager, secretary, cheosemakcr, and scrubbing boy, and, as I receive my pToflt from all the capital I have in my own business, as well as payment for all my labor, it is, as you say, as successful for myself as for the Mldhlrst suppliers bringing their milk to me in tons. Do you think they are not successful, prosperous, and progressive? I dp not expect you to answer this question, but challenge you to prove thai they are not doing better than they over did before and none of thorn are afraid of the old proprietary concerns of years' ago, and aro not bound down or tied up for one day. If they want to buy my business it can be purchased any day they care to say the word, and I am out to sell and wish success to the purchasers. In conclusion, "Old Settler/' let me say old systems are gone for ever. Progress Is the new order of the day, and please tell us all who usually buy co-operative dairy companies, butter, case- i in and cheese, co-operative companies, or big - ! proprietary firms, and do you not know they pay with good gold, which is the stuff old and new settlers are prepared to soil their butter-fat fbr ki the best market.—l am, etc.,. W. J. NEILSON. *SZ 'AOK 'isijtnjlK