KIRITAKI.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 282, 2 June 1909, Page 7

KIRITAKI.

[OWN COB.HESPONDENT.] Monday, tlie :jlst May, marked an epoch in the dairying history of this thriving district, i'or on that day the local creamery was taken over by the Rangitane Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., which comprises settlers in both tlie To Rehunga and Kiritaki dist ricts, and for the future co-operation is to lie tlie. order of the day. The. new company has started under very favorable conditions, so far as the financial aspect is concerned, for the prices paid for the butter factory in To Rehunga and the Kiritaki creamery are both considerably . lower than was at first anticipated. Most excellent references and testimonials accompanied the thirty applications which were received for the post of manager, making the selection -so difficult a matter that in the end seven names were submitted to the Dairy Commissioner for a final selection, so that it is practically a matter of certainty that a first-class man-. a ger will be secured. Again, in the matter of locality the.. fie w co-opera-tive factory is fortunate, for it is a well-known fact that some districts produce a better quality of cream than others, and it k also a fact that Kiritaki is one of those which produce the best. That this is no vain boast is proved by the statement of the II. U. Dairy Co.'s late buttermaker. Mr McDonald, who said that for making the butter for show purposes he always collected the cream from tlie Kiritaki creamery, and the butter thus made was only beaten for first place by ball' a point! The new company are retaining the services of Messrs Bcero and L. Walker at. the local creamery and Te Rehunga butter factory respectively, both of whom have proved themselves good reliable men in their respective positions, so that the interests of ihe shareholders will be safe in that respect, and iv 3{r Dobson the directors expect to liavo an onergetic. get-there-in-tiine and up-to-date secretary. There is thus onJy one. thing more, necessary to ensure an absolutely first-class paying concern, and that is the hearty co-operation of settlers themselves. One would have thought that after years of openly expressed dissatisfaction and grumbling against proprietary companies, aud alter having heard so much from other districts of the advantages of co-operation, that one and all would have jumped at the opportunity to participate in these- advantages when it wii' placed before them, but on the contrary there are still some who hold aloof: but it is hoped that in rime these also will see their way to come in. and so increase the business of what even at the outset promises to lie a most successful venture, and to this etui we will chink (in skim milk.-^o as to be economical!) to tlie success of the- Rangitane Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd. We note tli>'- advertisement in your paiier of the approaching visit of a nariv of l)r iiarnardo boys. It is to ! be hoiied that ip.anv' of our residents | ' i will make a- point- of being present n j till 1 Drill Hall on that occasion. ;