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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2834, 28 February 1888, Page 3

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The Dalefield Dairy Company. THE CONSTITUTION OF TIIE COMPANY. The locality chosen for the Taratahi and Gray town Dairy Factories, one being at the extreme north of Carterton, and the other at tha extreme South of Greytown, left a large tract of valuable dairy pasture about midway from which the distance to either was too great to allow of milk being successfully carried. The farmers thus placed set to work, a little more than a year ago, to s. s e what could be done towards the establishment of a third factory that would be available to them. At the request of some of the settlers, Mr W. Booth introduced the matter at a public meeting called in connection with opening out the roads in tho DaleQeld and Belvedere districts and started the share listwith £2OO, to wljWi nearly £I2OO was eventually suHcribed. The following scheme suggested by Mr George A, li'airbrother was then adopted for floating and working the concern, It was to get a capital floated sufficient to build a factory and equip it for putting through 1000 gallons of milk daily, but so ; .* arranged that it might without waste ! "• be extended to two or three thousand gallons and that the prime conditions should be (a) That the milk suppliers hold a proper proportion of the shares, (b) That interest should be paid on the capital under any circumstances, (c) And that a sufficient sum should be set apart every year to eventually pay back the capital first subscribed and allow of the concern falling entirely into the bands of the milk suppliers, THE SITE, BUILDING AND MACHINERY, A site of 5 acres situated near tho Dalefield Railway was purchased for ~ £ftjjj and a factory consisting of a biinxung, one portion of which is 42ft. x 30ft. and is used for a receiving press and milkroom. At the rear of this room is a leanto for the boiler which is a ten horse power multitubular one, A wing on the west side 26ft, x 36ft and specially built to ensure an oYen temperature, is utilised as. a curing

room. With this building 2000 gallons could bo worked daily with only ii very small addition to the plant. PAYMENTS FOR MILK, EXPENSES, AND PROFITS, Tlio directors are advancing twopence per gallon monthly on the milk (the supply of which reached over 800 gallons per day in December and January), and at the close of the season any surplus after paying working expenses, interest on the capital, and £6O a-year sinking fund (which is being invested with the Uroytown Building Society) to repay presentcapital, is to be divided amongst the milk suppliers in proportion to the milk they supply, who are thus working on a purely-co-operative principle, which it is to be hoped will avert any differences between them and outside shareholders such as have arisen with most factories hitherto established.

AN EXPORT TRADE BEING DOlvE. The Manager selected by the Directors was Mr T. W. Goss, lately of To Puke, and the cheese is all being made on the English Chedder system, and shipped to London as ready. The first six tons was sent by tho Kaikoura due at Plymouth in a few days. One ton was sent by the Tongariro, two tons by the Arawa,"and twenty-two tons are now being cased to go by the lonic in tho beginning of next month, manager's residence. A dwelling for the manager is just completed. A BUTTER FACTORY IN PROSPECT. The Directors are expecting a cable of the result of the Kaikoura shipment of cheese in the beginning of March, and if it is satisfactory, they propose to establish a Butter Factory for the Winter, so that dairymen will have a regular market for their milk all the year round,