THE WA IKA TO CHEESE AND BACON FACTORY.
At the invitation of the dircctois, a large number of ladies and gentlemen, rhicfly shaieholdors of the company, mot at the factory, near Hamilton, on Tuesday, on the occasion of taking over the plant horn the conli.ictois, Messis Ingiam and Co., to -whom was cntiusted the duty of electing the whole of tin* machineiy purchased in the United States by Capt. Runciman. As no detailed description of the building has yet appeared, we may state thai the factory is divided into two large rooms (one the making, the other the cm ing-room) and two smaller divisions, the engiue-liou.se and the oiftce, the whole sui rounded by a spacious verandah. On the covered platform at the end of the making-room, whore the milk is received, stands a most elaborate platfoim scale with live indicator bars, so that five suppliers' milk can be poured into the receiver on the scale platform and weighed at once, each suppliers' quantity being registered on the lever bais separately. The milk is discharged from a faucet into the vat, which is the principal feature in the factory. It is a circular vat, 12ft. Bin. in diameter, with a complicated agitating and curd-cutting arrangement, worked by a belt and shafting from the engine-house. The milk in the \at is heated to the required temperature by a series of steam pipes connected with the boiler, the pipes being placed between the inner tin, and the outer wood casing of the vat. In the making-room also stand the presses, hori/ont il and perpendicular. The former is a model of simplicity. The engine-house is light and roomy, and the engine is a handsome, smooth working machine, of four-horse power, supplied by Messrs Ingram and Co. The curing-room is tilled with shelves for holding the cheese, and a portion is about to have revolving shelves "fitted to it, so that the cheese can be turned over a number at a time. The whey is run from the factory to a distance of 200 fee-t, through iron piping, to suitable concrete receptacles, where the pigs connected with the factory will be fed. The visitors having duly inspected the building, congregated in the makingroom, when the machinery in the vat was set in motion, and the whole operation lucidly explained by Capt. Runciman. He also showed a sample of the boxes used in the States for packing cheese intended for export, and remarked that the size adopted generally in America, namely, from 38 to 431bs, would also be adopted in the Hamilton factory, this being the most convenient size for exporting". The visitors took great iuterest in all the proceedings, and expressed themselves as being greatly pleased with what they had seen. Refreshments were served in the making-room, and Captain Runciman proposed the health of the contractors, Messrs Ingram and Co., who, he said, had done the work entrusted to them in a thoroughly satisfactory manner. He also took occasion to state that the plant they had seen in working order was the first of its kind ever imported to the colonies, though he did not think it would be the last. The toast was responded to by Mr Crawford, who proposed " Prosperity to the Waikato Cheese and Bacon Factory Company." This toast, it is needless to say, was drunk with great heartiness, and the company shortly afterwards separated. The company have secured th.c services of Mr tSamuel ' Mead as manager. Mr Mead is a new' arrival in the colony, and is at present in Canterbury, but will take up his quarters at the factory » as sqon as his residence, which' is now being bijilt, f( is ready. It- jis expected, thaV fktiye f lopepa^jons;wjU tin
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Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1740, 30 August 1883, Page 2
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621THE WAIKA TO CHEESE AND BACON FACTORY. Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1740, 30 August 1883, Page 2
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