FACTORIES AND SUPPLIERS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 41, 26 May 1910, Page 4

FACTORIES AND SUPPLIERS.

SYSTEM OF INSPECTION,

The Eltham Co-operative Dairy Company has dccideu to make regular inspections of the cowsheds and appliances, etc., of its suppliers.. The directors of the company are now engaged in writing out a plan by which a thorough supervision will be maintained over the milking conditions on the different farms. They propose to appoint an inspector of their own, whose business it will be to carefully examine the conditions in existence in all the milking sheds from which the company draws its supplies. Where the conditions are faulty the errors will be pointed out and the proper remedial measures indicated. If the supplier shows a willingness to remedy the defects and work hand-in-hand with the company's inspector, and endeavor to meet his requirements—which will not be unreasonable—all will be well. If, however, in spite of warnings, a supplier fails to make reasonable efforts to improve the milk-shed surroundings, then the inspector may feel it bis duty to put into operation the provisions of the Dairy Industry Act, some of which are fairly drastic. If the experiment proves a success the 'Taranaki Herald' says it would like to see it made compulsory, for the greatest skill in the factory cannot altogether overcome the deleterious effect of tainted milk in the manufacture of butter. If the inspectors were called instructors and the Government made their employment compulsory, finding perhaps a portion of their pay, our contemporary considers j[auch good might result to the

Fortnightly Quadrille in tho Defence Hall this evening. ! Mrs Don, of Dunedin, will occupy the pulpit at the Milton Wosloyan Church on Sunday, and also at Waihola in the afternoon. Boy Scouts will parado at the Defence Hall at 7 o'clock on Friday. First-aid instruction by Mr G. Simpson. Full muster necessary. The Union skating rink openod its wiuter «CK6ion on Monday ovoning, when there was a good attendance of slmers, both proficient and otherwise. The rink is being liberally patronised each even ing, and Mr Ksnnnrd announces an obstacle race as an additional attraction fjr Saturday eveningStewart's, Manchester House, announce that they are making a bold bid for the overcoat trade. Seo advt. Tho death is announced of Mr Robert Wilson, a well-known pi inter in Inver cargill, Deceased was employed on the Bruce Herald as foreman printer when this publication was owned by Mr Joseph Mackay. Afterwards in company with Messrs \V. M'Girr, J. S Fleming, and H. F. Muir, ho established the Clutha Leader the first newspaper published in the Clutha district. Mr Wilson was a quiet, upright man in his business and in private life, and 'news of his demise will be rend with regret by many friends and acquaintances. ' Social in St Joseph's Schoolroom on Friday evening.