[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DAIRY COMPANY'S DIFFICULTIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 84, 10 April 1911, Page 3

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DAIRY COMPANY'S DIFFICULTIES.

TIMARU, Bth April. The Timaru Dairy Company, a small proprietary which some timo ago took over the factory, but not the creamery, of the 'South Canterbury Co-operative Company that failed, lia6 also failed, entailing a loss to suppliers whose- milk and cream are. as yet unpaid foi. There have been several lively meetings to consider what can be done in the matter. The Canterbury Company (Ch-ristchurch) offers to buy the cream, whilst the Taieri and Peninsula Company (Dunedin) is offering to take over the business if the suppliers agree. To-day at one meeting the suppliers asked for delay in winding up the Timaru Company in the hope of resuF-ci-tating it. At another meeting the Taieri and Peninsula Company's representatives made certain proposals, and a committee wa3 set up to consider these and report to a future meeting. Strong opposition however, came from North Otago, this objection being that the Taieri and Peninsula Company should not be given a monopoly. SAD STORY OF TWO NEW ARRIVALSDUNEDIN. 9th April. Two new arrivals appeared in the Police Court on Saturday morning. One, a man, applied for a prohibition order against nis wife, who objected to an order. The applicant said the woman had been drinking ever since they arrived in this country, jine weeks ago. She had consumed three bottles of beer between twelve o'clock one night and four o'clock next morning, and she had been arrested for drunkenness on the very first night thai they spent in Wellington alter arriving from Home. The wife wanted to know when her husband was going to get work. He was spending her money and had her bank book, and she had had to work at Home to keep the home together. The agent for the Society for the Protection of Womei. and Children said that she had visited the house, found it clean and the woman perfectly sober. What she wanted was someone to give her a helping hand. She had gone down through the drinking habits of her husband. Last week he had given -her a black eye. They had three fine boys — well dressed, well fed, and well mannered. The husband declined to take any order out against himself. He said that he did liot take drink into the house, and lie never got drunk himself. The magistrate . If you want to help your wife you will do so by "applying for an order against yourself. The hueband eventually agreed to an order being granted against him, and" his Worship thereupon issued an order against both the hatband and wife.