BUTTER FACTORIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1937, Page 6

BUTTER FACTORIES

DEFINING BOUNDARIES

(Special to the "Evening Post.") PALMERSTON N.,.This Day. . Considering the difficulties it has had to face in other centres in an endeavour to solve the problem of overlapping ■; cream lorries," the Executive Commission, of Agriculture must have left Pahiatua- yesterday .very satisfied withthe rapid progress made in respect of, the Wairarapa butter .factories. It was the first- occasion, the Commission had called" the companies together, to discuss the issue, and before the conference broke up 'some definite decisions; had been reached. The.first::step:.was the approval of a policy that/Wairarapa' cream could be satisfactorily, dealt with by "Wairarapa companies. ■ ■ 'This means', that the 'New Zealand: Dairy Union-, which "Operates from.Palmerston' North, is likely to be zoned 'out.;. The next step .was to fix- a southern boundary; 'for'-United (Wpodyiile) ■■ Company, and .'/the, Wei-'' lingtori-Hawke's Bay provincial, boundary I -to the Manawatu vßiver »and: then along 'the .river-;to . the.-f' Manawatu Gorge; was approved. Operating-around the Pahiatua .district;;, are. the ■ Pahiatua arid Konirii Companies,.1 and their; delegates assured ;the; Commission that they could be left to; solved their'own routes and- report back.'-■;>; This . the Commission' allowed them-to-do.,1 A bigger problem- was-j faced,-; however,when: it came'-tq;'-drawing:, a' dividing line between, these'two companies-; and the '.three operating 'between 'Konini and;'Masterton, namely, the Eketahuna, Mauricevillej and Mastertoh companies.. Finally 'th.e'r 'chairman,1 s. Sir' "Francis Frazer,•' urged' amalgamation -'as' the simple way out,'and a sub-committee :.was set up to see if that could be brought about. This sub-committee is to report to a further meeting at Pahiatua in three weeks' time. .It is hoped that the difficulties of the Featherston company will disappear as a result of the Eketahuna, Masterton, and Mauricevilla companies, amalgamating.