BIG DAIRYING AMALGAMATION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3089, 21 May 1917, Page 8

BIG DAIRYING AMALGAMATION

• ■ ■ By Telegraph.—Press Association. 1' Auckland," May 20. .[ " i Speaking at Auckland on Saturday, tho j Hon. A. M. Myers referred to a most irai; portant dovelopment in dairying in the I Waikato which hud taken place in tho } amalgamation of the Matangi Cheese i : Company with tho Jiow Zealand Dairy :' 'Associatiou, a echeme which provides ! for tho erection of a Glaxo factory and I places the Matangi factory as receiving >-' -.the largest millc supply under ono roof t in any part o£ the world. The Dairy i Ajsoeiation ha?' contracted to sell the j >utput of- Glaxo to Slessrs. Joseph )' Nathan and Co., Wellington, for a-tei-m }f years, the value of tho Glaxo exceed- -, Ing" two million pounds v . This he bej' lieved to be tho largest/commercial con- ;. tract made in. New Zealand.

At the regular monthly meeting of tho East Coast A. and P. Association, the president Mr. C. Morgan, presented to "Farmer" Daysh a silk hat and dress coat donated by Sir "Walter Buchanan for the person seenring the greatest num.ber of new members for the year. Air. Daysh suitably responded, thanking Sir Walter Buchanan for' his generosity. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Limited, Palmtrston North, report:—At the Veildibg cattle fair, on May 18, wo had a good yarding of. cattle and a fair, muster of sheep, which iTere submitted to a large 'attendance. The markett was absolutely lifeless, and most lines onboth cattle and sheep were passed in, and prices for most of the lines that were sold showed' a debided decline. Good-conditioned oi-year steers brouKht £14 155.; 3 year forward, etcers, £14 2s. 6d;;, 3-year store steers, .£l3 Ss.; fat heifers, £12'105.; Holstein we&ner heifers, £J 17s. 6d.; fat ewes, 31s. Id.; for-ward-mixed lambs. 17s.;' wether■ l«mbß, •l7s ; medium store Nunbß, 145.; cull lambs, 9s. sd. to 10s, 3d. ' ' . '