THE DAIRY FACTORY PROJECT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2738, 31 October 1887, Page 2

THE DAIRY FACTORY PROJECT.

A public meeting of persons interested in the Butter and Cheese industry was held in the Central Chambers on Saturday afternoon, when the following gentlemen were present:—Messrs M. Caselberg, W. H. Beetham, J. Hessey, D. Guild, - Blatehford, R. Kibblewhite, W. B. Buiok, A. W. Hogg, T. E. Chamberlain, J. Carman. Mr Caselberg was voted to the chair. Mr A. Johnston was. unavoidably absent through illness. ; The Chairman, in opening the proceedings," said that the object of convening the public meeting was to place the question of establishing a Dairy Factory before the public, though the real question at issue was, were."there sufficient dairies-in the district to establish a factory in Masterton. He argued, that unless -there were, it would-be useless to form a Company,.and that if the bulk of the shares were Held; by dairymen, it was more, than likely to lead to successful results. • stated 1 that how : the Sydney market was cut off for butter from New Zealand, they must look-to Europe, for. an ..outlet, and said- he had sent several-parcels Home, which had realized fyom 100s to 105s per cwtin kegs, whereas some he had sent in lib pats, rolled in calico, only brought from-45sto 55spercwt. dwelt ■upojr the importance of having butter made of uniform quality, ana read an. extract from a newspaper, shewing that a Sydney Butter Export Company' had realized 108s per cwt for butter in the English market, and theiefyerts had declared most emphatically that it would fetch a high price there in the winter if it was sent home good, sound, and well made/;, The prices realised in the same market for Normanby butter were from/126s to lß2s per cwt, and for to 120s per cwt. Cheese had'feen sent Home from New Zealand, vbut: owing to it not being packedin, a, cool: chamber, became strong;,;in;.flavor ( although it was of good quality; They would all see that the .only <way' to ;' reach the foreign market.-was. through a company. There wouliT be several things for the company;..^decide,

among which would-be, whether they would take all the milk, or.cream only. They could hire out, oream separators to the dairymen, who could extract "their..own cream, and keep the-offal-for their pigs, or the company could take all the milk, and keep pigs of their own. Mr Blatchford said if they depended on thi support of the'dalrynien of the district it would not be a succ©3a, the Company might do very well if they kept about 10.0 cows of their, own. He had made many enquiries among the dairymen and they all said they could make more of their butter now than they could get out of a Company. He considered that threepence or threepence halfpenny per gallon for milk was a very good price the latter being equal to about lOd per lb for butter. In answer to Mr .Kibblewhite Mr Caselberg said that the milk was brought a distance of nine miles to the Greytown factory. He also stated that several farmers in the Forty Milo Bush had expressed themselves willing to take shares in the Company, and he thought that if a factory was Btarted there would be a large quantity of milk sent down from the Bush district. He moved "that provisional direotorg bo appointed for. the purpose of establisha Company, in Masterton to be called the North Wairarapa Dairy Factory Company."

Owing to the small number of dairy farmers present, a difficulty was experienced in appointing provisional, .directors, although the sum.'bf £ll was guaranteed towards tliepreliiuinary expenses and 820 shares were, applied for. It was decided that a share list be left at the office of Mr T.- Mackay, Central Chambers, and that the appointment of provisional directors be held over to a future meeting of intending shareholders.

Avote of thanks was passed to the Chairman and the meeting adjourned.