HUGE PRODUCTION

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 142, 18 June 1938, Page 10

HUGE PRODUCTION

BUTTER AND CHEESE.

N.Z. DAIRY COMPANY.

DEMAND FOR MILK POWDER. <By Telesrraplur— Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. Despite the farm labour problem, less favourable weather towards the end of the season and the outbreak of facial eczema in stock, the New Zealand CoOperative Dairy Company had a record production year. This is possible only because of the larjje increase in the number of suppliers. The total of 71.ti!Ml tons of produce manufactured is an increase of 1!»:!!) tons on last sea ion.

Quantities of all commodities, with tlx- 1 !>.'{li-."(7 figures given in parentheses, are as follows (all in tons) : -ISutter, .">1.078 (o 1.001 ) ; cheese. O.iHO casein. 1 1T (lSO.'i); milk powder. (ilio4 (<;;{<•,! l) ; condensed milk, 220S (178;}).

In a statement to-day, Mr. C. J. Parlane, general manager of the company, said at the company's lti butter factories the output ranged from 1437 tons at Waimauku to ti~>"o at Waharoa. and at the IS cheese factories from 2N."> tons at llukuhia to 100.'$ at Manawaru. An adjustment in the supplies of milk for cheese and casein manufacture was to some extent responsible for an increase in cheese and a decrease in the quantity of casein produced.

Milk powders were in firm demand at satisfactory prices, and more evaporated milk was being manufactured at good prices. Mr. I'arlane mentioned that a new and modern lmtt"r factory had been erected at Tirau. and would he officially opened by the Minister of Agriculture on July •>. As the factory would result in a rearrangement of the cream supplies, the company had decided to closc the butter factory which has been operating at Waihou for many years.