MANUFACTURE OF CASEIN

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10712, 16 October 1912, Page 5

MANUFACTURE OF CASEIN

A WANGANUI COMPANY. PROPOSAL FOR WAIRARAPA. i The present and prospective importance of the casein industry to the 1 dairy farmer's of the Dominion is not I yet fully recognised. Just about 'twelve months ago tlio New Zealand i Casein Company, Limited, began the manufacture of casein at Aramoho, commencing on a small scale, and gradually extending its operations as experience warranted. The company has just completed the erection of a new factory, equipped witJi the most modern machinery, for the manufacture of this important article. Thisgreatly increased capacity will enable the company to treat far more of the ram 7 material than can be supplied from the farms in the immediate neighbourhood. Thanks to the favourable railway charges obtained, it will bo able to treat curd from a larger district than was at first contemplated, and it will be possible for Wairarapa. dairy factories to obtain the benefit accruing from the new industry without having c to face the heavy expenditure of building their own drying stations. The precipitation plant required in the creameries is inexpensive, and readily to be obtained in New Zealand. Casein could be made in the Wairarapa this season quite easily, as a month would suffice for the preliminaries: The secretary of the Masterton Dairy Company has received a letter from the N.Z. Casein Company, covering a cordial invitation to the directors and secretary to inspect the new factory at Aramoho, and the creamery installations in the district. It is fortunate for the industry that such an enthusiastic body has taken up this work at the start, and the people of Wanganui deserve to succeed. Before starting they made full inquiries, and made experiments with all known 'methods of manufacturing casein, with the result that they finally adopted the method of Messrs Lehmann and Voss, of Hamburg, for the following reasons: (1) Excellence of produce; (2) inexpensive method of precipitation; (3) minimum of labour entailed and convenience of general working;'. ,(4). total absence of; any .harmful ingredients ; and (5) excellence of resu-l-tan&whey as a. stock food. It is gratifying to know that our, New- Zealand casern is equal to the highest grades of European, and with the climatic conditions obtaining here, there is no reason why New Zealand should not take and retain'firs£ place as a producer of a reliable and uniform article.