INCREASED COSTS
DAIRY FACTORY COMMITMENTS EFFECT OF REGENT LEGISLATION [Pee United Press Association.] HAMILTON, December 9. An estimate of the increased factory costs to be borne by dairy companies as a result of recent legislation has been compiled by the Morrinsville Cooperative Dairy Company. “It is possible now to get a view of the probable increased factory costs in -butter manufacturing for the current year,” says the statement issued on behalf of the company. “ Our own figures reveal the following increases:— Cream collection, £2,600; boxes, £3,600; wages, £2,000; sundries (freezing, etc.), £l,Boo—a total of £IO,OOO. “ Our anticipated output this year will be 3,400 tons, so that the increase is, roughly speaking, £3 a ton of butter manufactured. Taking the Waikato output at 70,000 tons for the year, the extra cost is calculated to be £210,000.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22517, 9 December 1936, Page 10
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135INCREASED COSTS Evening Star, Issue 22517, 9 December 1936, Page 10
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