THE FORTY-MILE BUSH DISTRICT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 694, 20 December 1909, Page 10

THE FORTY-MILE BUSH DISTRICT.

MTLIC .VND HONEY. .-•Thr' present I '-time is .considered to he'the height of the dairying season in the ' FortymilO Bush. District (says , our Pahiatua correspondent)/ and at tho Ballance .-Dairy Com.pany's butter: factories at-Konini and Ballance about us.,.boxes : ofj butter 'are-manufactured daily, 'ovor. 80 boxes'being made at the former factory. To this factory about 2j-tons of cream is brought, daily from the.Hamua and Hukanui ;.creamexio3,; quite a load, as was found out tho other-day whea'tho axlo of 'the' vehicle bfoko and -everything - had " ,to .be transhipped. ;■ .' The r Biipply. of: .milfc to .these two creameries is be'tween .2600 and;2Boo gallons cach daily. - ;' The/Mahgarama 'eheese factory paid. out £700 for / November's ■' milk supply, and a similar amount was 'paid'out; by the ilaknri-Pongaroa-Dairy Company. -./ . ;. :

; i Mr.. W. J; Sl'Donald, manager of tho-Kau-,pokonui:-.Dairy-;,Cdinpany, wrote ' recently, it will ; be-remembered, to the Hawera AV inter Show Company, suggesting a conference of factory managers -to' discuss conditions of compchtions. : Tho letter was before tho directors of '.the company/on ; Monday, and it.was resolved to .reply thanking Mr. MDbnald for his letter, : and pointing out that it was .the'intontion of the' company. . to.-foster, the dairy -industry of tho district in every way, and that the juatter. mentioned ,by him would. rcceivo every consideration. Subsectnently the chairman, ecc-retary.'-and Mr./Turton were appointed to meet the.-,various cheese , factories, ■ . \y, Mr. Eustace. Xane, Crown , tenants' Topresentative on tho JCauJ Board at Napier, states that' ha 3 sold _his farm ,to provide himself with the sinews of war necessary to'fight to- a finish iu ,the interests of the farmers' of New Zealand, aro Lrown tenants .