BUTTER OR CHEESE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 123, 17 February 1908, Page 2

BUTTER OR CHEESE.

HOT MEETING AT BUNNYTHORPE. ' AORANGI WINS A BATTLE.' About fifty shareholders and suppliers (telegraphs our Manawatu correspondent)' assembled in tho Town Hall, Bunnythorpo. on Saturday night to do battle over a proposal to run dual plant for ; cheese-making and butter-making. Mr. Arnold) chairman of directors, presided. Aorarigi .suppliers attended in strong force;'to opposo anr alteration. Some of the Aorangi suppliers contended that' BunnythOrpe milk would not produce first-grade, eheosS.' An Aofangi director, argued strongly in favour of.. butter,arid u some Bunnythorpb suppliers acfiused Aorangi Of trying to " rule,the iroast." Tho Chairman, commencing to pour oil on l .-° troubled Watersj stated, that he had' followed tho market closely, and found that butter prices had risen to a phenomenal height, l tmt ; there _ was : ho, indication that - cheese hud ' risen in proportion. They' could take' it from good authority tliat the 1 price ttiairiiaiued"Lby. cheese was owing to a ring formed 'at Home ~ to keep up, the price. Canada, if she so d&- , sired) could swamp; tho Hoiiie market with \ oheeso. The Levin Company was sorry, that its cheese plant had been installed, and;there wero others in'a similar condition. He cbit!' , eluded by stating he hid tio fexe to grind, " ns he was out of dairying,: and, was .leafing the district,' stated that'the present site was not • suitable for; cheese-1 making, owing to drainage matters. Mr. Whittakor, a secretary for other ,faotories, gave an account of the state of :the; markets, in other parts of the" world!Rus- . , siau butter, . lie said, was' ribw' going Eaist;.. / tlio Danish people wero going in for selling nulk instead of butter; the'/Home consump- , toon of, butter had' in6reased by SO $er-eent. j and evory indication pointed; toward"bright prospects,for New. Zealand. ; V Messrs. Milden Bros.; Bunnythorpfe,;iinaintained that' while, supplying ,the opposition factory farmers,received 1 better.results ovring to cheese-making.':''-'* ■■ ' Rebutting argumeht''was' brought that the conditions l ,of -tho , 'SMSOir'';ror6' different. The • Aorangi; Creamery- was'/accused of not paying,' arid, a wholesale flutter Clwiied between representatives; of-the , various districts. . It' was; pointed r out . that-''the;, system'-, ' \vas, one of eon tract as a whole,- and\ there' was rio reason w^.;Ao#a^;\^.M:j«^g.'';.. A i oo'nflict , took place hetweon two; secretaries over the correctness of; books;"andione " offered to give the other- ss. for-every "mistake.; Tho aieeting v waS "quiet,while the'two secretaries fpught the'.rilatter' out. ' . A motion : was, finally carried to:■ continue ; \ as at; present; and a'n. -ameridmerit : that . a oommitteo of six bo appointed,- threa"to"rOpresent butter,and ,three .cheese,'-'Was,lost." ■ A -heated discussion' took, place - on? a . legal : point.- 1 ;The Chairman intimated that'there • would be good. profits' for! shareholders ' at' thV ond of tho season,Vbut ; those'whoV had/Mot ■' signed the guarantee- to the bank eould ; not participate in those profits, ■ Mr.-Whittaker maintained, that ' unless this / was A iriade clear to anyone taking up-shares, it could not be carried into effect. It'was decided'that' tho advice of a' : solicitor should', be.-obtained. •• " ' , SoVeral 'who voted' to continue butter-' making, favoured cheese,, but not at< this stage, owing to the state of the market andthe extra expense involved by the proposed change. '