WAIMAUKU BUTTER FACTORY.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 283, 28 November 1924, Page 8

WAIMAUKU BUTTER FACTORY.

OFFICIALLY OPENED YESTERDAY. CEREMONY BY MI!. COAXES. Waimauku's new butter factory \\a [ opened yesterday afternoon by the Hor J. (J. Coates. Mr. K. Morgan, chairma) I of directors of the proprietary company the Waitcmata Co-operative Dairy Cora [ pany. presided, and there was a 2oo< , attendance. The speakers at the cere j mony were Mr. I". «.;riLrjr, chairman o the Wai tenia ta. ( uunty Council; Mr A. E. Uipruse, representative of tin Kaukapakapa ridinjr on the Waiteniati J Council; Mr. I. Dear, secretary of tin Kaipara Dairy Co.; Mr. Thome, repre sentative of Newton Kinfr. Ltd.: am ( Mr. C. K. Macinillan, M.l*, for Tau ranga. Mr. Maemillan said that the dam companies were units in the whole sys i torn of co-operation in New Zealand They were concerned with produc I tion. The next statre was marketing "We considered there was too rnuct lof a rake-off in the marketing," h< added. "There mint be a body to set that the rako-oll" is reduced. That i; why the Dairy Control Hoard was sei up. In its first year it has savec enough to pay all the freezing charges on butter and eheeso by cutting dowr insurances and freight rates, the savins on insurances being 50 per rent of the amount paid last year. Roughly, will , an output equivalent to last year's that moans £72,00". The whole oi this has cone to the local companies The Roard has also been able to make satisfactory arrangements for ship menta in cases where companies have found difficulty in financing them, Shipping freights have boon reduced which, on Ci.ooo tons of butter and 03,000 tons of cheese per annum, will mean a saving of .t:i4O.H:!:S in the third year," Mr. Coates said that the Waimaukil Creamery Association was formed in 1004 with six suppliers. Today there were :W0 suppliers to the co-operative company that had been formed in lilOH, and the value of the grown trom i.'23S.j to .£50,550. Tne volume of output in 1910 was 02 tons, and in in-24, 351 tons. It had cost £u'GOO to build the factory, £2000 for new plant, and in addition there was old plant valued at iloOn. With its present plant the factory will be able to cope with a maximum output of (500 tons, and provision is made for installing further machinery to handle a total of 1000 tons. Mr. Morgan presented Mr. Coates with a silvpr key from tlie directors, and the Minister then declared the factory open and turned on the steam. Afternoon tea was later dispensed at the public hall.