KAUPOKONUI'S NEW FACTORY.
OPENED BY 'MINISTER FOR AGRICULTURE. ■ The foundation stone of the new factory being erected for the Kaupokonui Co-operative Dairy Company was formally laid by the Minister for Agriculture (the Hon. Thomas Mackenzie) on Saturday. Kaupokonui is about thirteen miles west of llawera on tho road to Opunake. The new factory is to' be capable of turning out 3500 tons of cheese: a year. The building will .costfc£sooo, and the machinery about an equal amount. Through its dual" plant the "manufactory can-be changed from a chceso producer to a butter producer in one (lay. Speaking! at the function, the chairman of the company's directors (Mr. W. .. Powdrell) said, according to a Taranaki exchange, that tho factory had been in existence thirteen and .a half years. The first year's payments had been <£6200, and last, year's ,£123,000. In tho same period land had increased in price from 4!10 to i'so an acre. The. Minister extended his congratulations to the directors of tho company on. the progress they had made, Last year, he said, the district within a radius of' ten or a dozen miles had produced 7000 tons of cheese and 1250 tons'.of butter. In the whole-Dominion the ■ cheese'output had increased in a decade from 4900 tons to 22,000 I tons last year.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1116, 2 May 1911, Page 8
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