TAUWHARE CHEESE FACTORY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2154, 29 April 1886, Page 2

TAUWHARE CHEESE FACTORY.

With a view to assisting the farmer 3 nettled on their estate, the Waikato Land Association erected a cheese and bac>n factory on the site ot their new township at Tauwhare, at a cost of £850. The building comprises a working chamber, with a concrete floor, which in fitted up with one of Ingram and Co's \ats capable of receiving 1000 gallons of milk, sit double screw presses, and a gang press. This opens in to the storing room, which has a completo range of shelves, and whereon, at the present time are about ten tons of cheeses of various sizes. In the engine-room is a five horse power vertical engine, from which a conduit pipe passes into the workinc chamber and supplies the vat with steam. A large trough is fixed under a tank in the engine-room wherein the pisjs are slaughtered and dressed. The company have just received from the Aylesbury Dairy Company in England, » fins cream separator, the only one of the kind in the colony, made by Burmeister and Wain of Denmark, and which cost £75 at Home. It is capable of making 2000 revolutions per minute. At the rear of the factory is the piggery, where they prepare a large number of pigs for curing purposes. Up to the present time the quantity of milk received at the factory is 350 gallons per diem, but this amount is expected to be doubled in tho course of another year. The price given for milk i* fourpence per gallon to settlers on the estate, and threepence halfpenny to outsiders. The factory is a powerful incentive to the industry of the district, and is spoken of in high terms by the tanners on the association's property. Mr F. Allan, who has had some experience in cheese factories has charge of this one, and acts under the general supervision of Mr H. Reynolds of Woodlands, the manager of tha Lind Association, who was good enough to show us over the premises.