DAIRY FACTORY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 August 1925, Page 4

DAIRY FACTORY.

ALTON’S ANNUAL MEETING. There was a fair attendance of suppliers at the annual meeting of Alton Co-op. Dairy Company, Ltd., Mr A. J. Clibbs, chairman 01 directors, presiding. The annual report for the season was as follows: 'file late surpluses on shipments for 1923-24 season allowed your directors to bring up the payment for fcnat season to Is ojd per lb butter-fat. At the date of this balance approximately 1260 crates of cheese remain unsold ; this cheese was taken into the balance-sheet at 8d per lb f.0.b., or approximately 90s per cwt London. The market for this produce has considerably improved, and a considerable surplus is expected to be thus available. Payments for the past season have been made up to Is od per lb butterfat. Your directors recommend that £lO be placed to a repainting reserve, and that 5 per cent be jiaid on paid-up share capital; that £lB6 7s 2d be placed to a store reserve; and that the balance at credit of appropriation account, together with any iurther snrpusee, be paid out, pro rata, on butterlat supplied for the whole season. Summary for season.—Total amount of milk, 11,398,6811 bs; total amount oi tat, 460,594.5m5; eneese made (gross), 1‘,214,22-libs (-542 tons lcwt Oqr lib); cheese made (less 21 per cent branded weights), 1,183,866m5; creamery butter made (including starter), 20,0991b5; total whey butter boxed, 535 boxes. Used for eheeeemaking.—-Pounds of milk, 10,971,203; pounds of fat, 448,142.9; cheese made (net), 1,183,8661b5; pounds milk to lib cheese (net), 9.631; pounds cheese from lib fat, 2.641; average test, 4.084. Used for buttermaking, plus starter. —Pounds milk, 427,78; pounds; fat, 17,451.6; butter made, 20,0991 be; boxed with whey, 95461b5; butter pounded, 10,553; overrun, 15.1; average grade for cheese, March 31 to March 31, 92.27; average grade for whey butter, March 31 to March 31, 88; cost of manufacture to f.0.b., 3.86 d. in moving the adoption oi the report the chan nito n ref erred to the fact that the output was about the same as last year, and that home seperation had been instituted lor those who wanted fit. He gave it ais Iris opinion that cheese manufactured over a period of ye tins must win out and that dual! plants 111,ad not been justified. The quality of the produce had improved, the grade being very high, an average of 92.27, and the manager had achieved great siuoeeiss ait North Island .shows. He remarked on the savings effected by the Dairy Control .Boland, in insurance and freights and in the (ormiaition of the federation of Taranaki factories, which livid more than justified abseil by the institution of the lluiry Laboratory in Hawern. He considered the prospects for tlie season remarkably good, and added that the position of the company was very sound. The retiring directors, Mesisns A.. J. Giibbs and P. Palmer were re-elected. Mr. J. I>. G. Thomson was re-appoint-ed auditor. At a subsequent meeting of tlie directors Mr. A. ,T. Gibbs was re-elected chairman for the ensuing year.