PAHIATUA NEWS.
(Fivm Our Resident Reporter). Friday
CORRESPONDENCE. \HE MALLANCE CO-OPERATIVE DAIRY COMPANY. To the Editor. Sir, -I understand that a report is Loirg I'reely circulated to the effect that ?.-. the meeting of suppliers to the id- Company, held at Konini on Mk r;day last, I made the statement -hat if cheese brought 5:1 per lb in London the producer at this end wouii; receive at the rate of 15d per in fur butter fat This, of course, is abs'.-d. As a matter of fact I made only (v o statements on that occasion, as thoro who were present will rememler. 'Any other figures quoted were oad from a paper supplied by a ~t .-oman who until recently was on tr■■ Government dairy staff, and who l now the representative ot a woll-io'Qwn firm handling dairy mach inery. So that there mav be no mistake i" the matlter, 1 give the figures a; he supplied them, and which I read. He put's the total cost of manufacture down at I.GJ per lb of jiitttr fat, which is understood to cover everything:— Per lb for butter fat. -T'eet; it 6d per ib, equals 15d L.S3 -est of manufacture 1.6 d 13.4 d 'Cheese at shd lb, equals 13.72 d 'Less cost of manufacture 1.6 d 12.12 d Cheest- at 5d per lb, equals 12.5 d Less cost of manufacture 1.6 d 10.9 d
Those are the figures, and 1 sup po« they are about right; if not, then the secretary of the Ballance Company is the very man to put thorn right at to-night's meeting. With reference to my own statements, grant rne space to aay that they wore to the following effect : Thst.il jur company had been manufacturing cheese it would probably hav3 been enabled to pay out to its suppliers an additional lid per lb for butter fat, which would mean upwards of £12,000 during two years. Th? second statement was that .cheese at 5d in London (a low price it h i= not touched for four or five years) ■ would net the producer at this end 10.9 c] per lb for butter fat,which is a better average price by far than the Ballance Co-operative Dairy Company has paid its suppliers for t v e last two years—admitted to be record years so far as the price obtained for butter is concerned.—-I am, etc., J. G. BRECHIN.
There was a large attendance of members at the fornightly meeting of Lodge Pahiatua, U.A.0.D., last evening. Three members wt-re initiated and four proposed for membership. A visiting brother was also present from Stonehenge Lodge, Mastertun. At the conclusion of the ordinary business, a social evening was held, and about twenty members of the locai lodge of Foresters attended as guests. Games of cards were played until about ten, when refreshments were handed round, and after that songs were rendered by Bros. F. Sedcole, E. Clarke, H. Pearcey, A. Heberley, and W. Jacques, and recitations by Bros., A. Debreceny and Wilson. Bro. Yule, on behalf of the Foresters, thanked the Druids for their kind invitation and hoped that the social evening spent would be the forerunner of many more similar functions. During the evening men- . tion was made of a card tournament : between the Friendly Societies, to take place in the winter evenings. It - was decided to arrange a football match between the Foresters and Druids at an early date. The following team will represent Pahiatua in the football match against Manga tainok'a, on Saturday afternoon, on the letter's ground: —Yule (2), Siflith, Eccleto n, Hall Heberley, Bluett, Morrison, Foss, Guerin, Olsen, Fairbrother, Singleton, Mexted, Jolly; emergency, Meade, 'Shaw and Bell. The Searborough-Pahiatua footpath is nearing completion, a large portion of the path being already metalled, and the contractors consider that they will finish the work in about * four days. The Pahiatua milkmen are raising • the price of milk from May Ist. The mission services conducted by tne Rev. Father Gilmartin in the Catholic Church have been well attended during the past*week. Th
mission will be brought to a close on Sunday afternoon. A meeting of the executive of the Pahiatua Branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union will be held in the Commerial Hotel, to-morrow (Saturday afternoon. ivir J. Jnhnson, who for some time past has been on the teaching staff at the Pahiatua District High School, has been appointed to take charge of the secondary department at the Marton District School. This afternoon Mr Johnson was entertained by his old pupils, and some of his friends prior to his leaving this district to take up his new duties. The Pahiatua footballers are requested to be on the Domain Ground at Mangatainoka, to-morrow afternoon, at 3 o'clock sharp.
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