MORRINSVILLE DAIRYING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 4

MORRINSVILLE DAIRYING.

RETURNS FOR MAY. TATUA'S FINE RECORD. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) MORRINSVILLE, Friday. Despite a considerably lower supply of butterfat, higher rates of pay-out than for last season have resulted in larger distributions for May to the suppliers of dairy companies operating in the Morrinsville district. A feature of the returns is the fine record <A the Tatua Company (cheese). Together with its pay-out on the ba«;s of 1/6 per lb of butterfat, a %d bonus, amounting to £1500, is being paid. Thw is the fifth bonus paid to suppliers since January, three being for this season'# supply, and brings the pay-out over th<2 whole season up to 1/7 per lb. The Norfolk Company is also paying out a s >4d bonus, amounting to £780, while ald bonus on cheese, totalling £1434, will bring the average pay-out of the Sunny Park Company up to 1 'ft for the season. The returns are as follow, those for May, 1927, being given iri parentheses: — Morriiurvillc: J'ounH« butterfat. 62,510 (74,023.7/; pay-otJt, 1/5 'J/4;; distribution, £4045 18/7 (£40121. Tatua (Tatuanuii: Pounds butterfat, 30,401 (44,820); pax-out, 1/6 (1/2); distribution, £2343 (£2614). Norfolk: Pounds rnilk, 9 (471,549); test,. 4.83 (4.6E2); lb butterfat, 1ft,020.9 (21,807,3); pay-out, 1/3 (L/); distribution, £1134 16/5 (£1000). Sunny Park (Te Poi): Cheese, lb milk, 381,943 (230-919); average tent, 4.49 (4.41); lb butterfat, 16,285.0 (10,490.8); pay-out, 1/6 (1/2); distribution, £1221 9/ (£6ll 18/). Butter, lb milk, nil (122,515); lb butterfat, nil (53253); lb cream, 19.0W (27,402); tmt, 40,23 (41.11); lb butterfat, 7862 (11,008.4); pay-out, 1/4 (1/1); distribution, £322 (£BBB 9/7).