The Bush Dairy Factories.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4822, 11 September 1894, Page 3

The Bush Dairy Factories.

(From Our Own Correspondent),

Matters in. connection with dairy factories around Pahiatua have for some fevr weeks been in a very unsettled state. Ballnnco has been the chief centra of discord, and thero the jucstion has assumed different phases with astonishing rapidity. First of til the milk suppliers there declined to fall in with the new arrangement proposed by Cook & Co. (the present proprietors of what aro known as the Dottridgc factories) and invited proposals from tho N.Z. Dairy Fanners Union. The necessity of themselves finding tho capital to build and rimthc factories and of ten have to faco the risk of falling and glutted markets, did not prcdispsc the settlers in favor of the Union, whose proposals were indefinitely shelved. Similar consideration operated against any idea of working the factory on a cooperative basis. Just as matters were getting delightfully mixed a new clement was introduced. Mr Foster, manager of thoN. Z. loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., appeared on the scene and offered to provide flic money required at 7 per cent, and to guarantee 3d per gallon of 10J lbs. The question wasthrcshed out at amccliug atßallance on Friday evening, and at Pahiatua on Saturday morning. At tho former place at any rate the result has evidently been satisfactory as a sito for a factory was on Saturday afternoon purchased by Mr Foster. The suppliers at Hawcra, Woodvillc and Kaitawa havo signed Cook and Co'.'s agreement, audit is considered likely that those at"Mangahu-] noka will follow tliis lead. On the pjher j|aud, suppliers at Ballaucehavo thrown ill thpir lot with the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, and there is a possibility of sottlcrs at KumerQa, and some of those atMangatainoka, also accepting the offer, Tho Makakalii settlors havo not yet decided. This means that there will bo opposition in the butter-making trade tins season, which, on the whole, ■ may not bo altogether a bad thing for the district,