CO-OPERATIVE DAIRYING

Hawera Star, Volume L, 26 August 1930, Page 10

CO-OPERATIVE DAIRYING

IDLE COMPANY

LARGE INCR EASE IN OUTPUT. The annual report of the chairman ol | directors, Mr J. JL Murdoch, to be pie-j wen ted to the shareholders of the Joll Co-operative Dairy Company on M ed-1 nesday states that from the appropriation account it would he noticed that the final realisation on produce for the year ended June 30, 1929, exceeded the estimate by £4903 9s l.Od. This had enabled the directors to bring the final payment for the 1928-29 season to Is 8 l-8d a pound butter-fat. I For the past season the appropriation account showed £14,680 3s Id as available for distribution. Out of this amount the directors recommend that interest on shares at the rate of 5 pel cent, per annum he paid to shareholders holding fully-paid shares. The balance will enable the payment for the past season to be brought to slight-j ]y over Is 6d per lb butter-fat, exclusive of interest on share's. j Cheese in stock has been valued at a very conservative estimate. Should the final realisation exceed this estimate suppliers will receive an increased payment. The profit on the bulk store and garage, amounting to £266 5s 2d, J has been placed to reserve. The statistics for the season, with those of 1929 in parentheses, are: Total milk received, 81.116,9431 b (76,369.7581 b) : total butter-fat. 3,457,1201 b (3,206,4961 b); average tost 4.261 (4.198) ; total charges up to f.o.b. ocean steamer at per lb butter-fat. 3.47 d (3.42). Used for cheese-making.—Pounds ol milk, 80,025.36H> (75,169,0001 b); pounds of butter-fat, 3,404,3041 b (3,149,9371 b) ; average test, 4.25 (4.19) ; cheese made (not weight), 3708 tons scwt 101 b (3844 tons 15cwt 921 b); milk to one pound cheese 9.(531b (9.201); pounds of cheese per lb of fat, 2.4301 b (2,5391 b (2.5911 b). Used for butter-making.—Pounds of milk, 1.091,5821 b (1,200,6681 b); pounds of butter-fat, 52,8251 b (56,559) ; average test, 4.38 (4.71); ■butter made, 28 tons Bcwt 481 b (30 tons 3cwt 281 b); milk to one pound of butter, 17.131 b (17.7711 b); over-run 20.57 (19.45). The weight of butter made from each pound of butter-fat used for the manufacture of butter was 1.20571 b. No funsalted butter was made. The weight of cheese made from each pound of butter-fat used for the manufacture of cheese was 2.8811>.

AWATUNA COMPANY. The thirty-sixth annual report to be presented to the shareholders of the Awatuna Dairy Company at To Iviri on. Saturday states that with unsold cheese taken in at 75s per ewt. the balance to the credit of appropriation account will bring payments for the season to Is 5.56 d per lb for cheese and Is 3d for butter. The produce had been forwarded on open consignment. The amount of cheese manufactured was 1043 tons, compared with 1078 tons trlie previous year, but butter bad. increased from 32 tons to 100 tons. The factory statistics, with figures for the previous year in parentheses, are : Milk received, 22,654,7111 b (22, 152,4991 b) ; cream received, 117,4351 b (55,5821 b); butter-fat, 1,001,928.81 b (937, 353.11 b); average test, cream 39.45, milk, 4.218 (4.137); total charges to f.0.b., 3.43 d (3.62 d). Cheese-making: Milk, -22,291,1611 b (21,860.5221 b); butter-fat, 938,382.21 b); average test, 4.209 (4.127); cheese, factory weights, 2,338,0681 b (2,415,057 lb); milk to lib of cheese, 9.531 b (9.051 b); cheese from 1001 b of milk, 10.481 b (11.041); cheese from lib butter-fat 2.491 b (2.6761 b). Butter-making: Butter-fat, 184,621.91 b (59,527.51 b); butter made, 224,8101 b (72,6241 b) ; butter from lib of butter-rat, 1.21761 b (1.22031 b).

KAUPOKONUI company. INC Hi: A,SIN) PRODUCTION. The thirty-third annual report of the Kaupokonui Dairy Company states the supply of milk showed an increase of 10.05 per cent, on the previous season, and the total cheese output had risen to 033.1 tons, an increase of 7.17 per cent, as compared with last season. An average distribution of Is 4.59 d per 11). but-ter-fat had been made made, and after making provision for the usual appropriations it was estimated that the final payment would be approximately Is Gd. The retiring directors are Messrs E. T. Burke and.F. Muggeridge, who offer themselves for re-election. The seasons statistics are, with those for the previous year in parentheses:— Pounds of milk received, 70,614,535 (64,161,755) ; pounds of butter-fat, 3,071,887 (2,691,854); average test, 4.352 per cent. (4.195 per cent.); factory pay-out per lb of butter-fat for last season (Is 8 1 -7d); number of suppliers, 236 (239); total charges (including repairs and depreciation) up to f.o.b. per 11,. butter-fat, 3.558 d (3.687 d). Used for cheese-making.— Pounds of milk.. 01,214,039 (62,915,575); pounds of butter-fat, 2,653,882 (2,633,033); average test, 4.335 per cent. (4.185 per cent); lbs. of cheese made (factory packing weights), 7,461,555 (6,962,215) 3331 tons (3108 tons); lb of milk to lib cheese, 9.46 (9.03); lbs of cheese to 11b butter-fat (gross 2.811), nett 2.47 1(2.578); lb of cheese from 1001 b milk, lo.od (11.06); lbs of butter made, 495,02S (283,586); lb of butter from 11b butter-fat, 1.9.14 (1.2109). Whev butter—Pounds of whey butter, 151,760 (147,168); lbs of whey butter per ton of cheese, 45.5 (47.3).

Tile British Ministry of Transport returns of railway accidents show that only three passengers lost their lives in | accidents to trains on the British anilways larst year, or fewer people than are killed in the streets of Don don every day. Passenger journeys made on the railways in 1929 numbered 1,702,000,000 and it- will tints bo seen that risk of death in a train accident was .so infinitesimal as to lie negligible, a one in live hundred-millionth chance. This remarkable result hod not been attained without continuous care and supervision, and the provision, at huge cost, of every electrical and mechanical device that can aid the human element in railway operation. In no other country are such elaborate' precautions taken to ensure the safety cf passengers).