IT PAID HIM TO KEEP CHANGING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 105, 27 January 1908, Page 2

IT PAID HIM TO KEEP CHANGING.

• .Some startling; announcements'' (says the '" Sydney Morning Herald V) wore recently made before , commission, inquiring-info the dairying" industry. in "' South' Australia, concerning tho contents of-cream cans, which included, dead rats and other .vermin. . . But a . much inor6 : serious allegation, from; the' suppliers' point of. view, has since been made. - .It was-dcclarcd that the-most'commori emo of complaint was, that tho consigners had to. put, up with' gradually diminishing returns ; from whatever factory- they patronised—returns that would immediately improve on > chango of factory being made,'anrl.then'go oG again.-. One witness said that'he begin • by/ receiving 301b. of ■ butter from 501b. of - cream. Then the' return dwindled till it got ; down to 20 from the same quantity of cream. 1 , He changed his factory. SAt first ho got 301b; •' , from ft live-gallon can, but tho valuo pf tho • return gradually slipped away _frmn.il- to Bs. .. » 6d. . And so on,-from one faotory to the other ho went. "I deal at tho Government factory' now,",.he addod, and get much greater-satisfaction.". . .v— ——--—... ;• vl:Si■■ •'