PROPOSED OPUNAKE BUTTER FACTORY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume V, Issue 980, 16 December 1884, Page 2

PROPOSED OPUNAKE BUTTER FA CT OR Y.

We are glad toj leaiii tbat the proposal to start a -butter factory at Opnnake has assumed shane. and that- tnere is a strong probability of its being carried into effgofc ;Bfl?eral-fajr«n^r« • ««» lt.«e neighborhood are taking an active interest in the matter, «nd a : preliminary canva9ai which baa hardly' extended has resulted in £300 worth of shares beyond, the .boundsof towns, having 4 * been 'stibscribM. ! Af presenr tbe promoters are waiting for a reply to .a request sent /to the Government tbat Mr. Bpwron' may. be directed, to; visit Opunake, and give information- and, advice. When favored with these the promoters will, at once, isspe a prospec^ s tns and make 4 more complete canVassr' In any case it An almost certain that a batter factory' Tvill be started, and it may be that the manufacture, of cheese and bacon will also . be. undertaken, tlje, only^ diffiodlty anti^ip'ated being as to the raising of the necessary capital- lor -tbe' latter undertaking. There . is jreaaon , for believing thati the company . woo,ld bs ajble v to.f , get customers,' who would contract to, taktt, all tba butter made at an averag»'of Is* per lb; throughout the year. The ' laoor qaestion has, not been overlooked' by tbe^ promotere. One locat advantage i'« that there are a great, many ffamiliesiwbo would keep a few tows, and tbeiwJwould be a steady 6^pply, ; tef milk JroOi:' this. source to the benefit of the company and jtbe sellers ; and several farmers, MrV Breach for Inbtance; 5 have gope ( into; the question of the 'cost 6f ; labor, and : tb?nk that the profit; from' tbe milk will amply justify keeping bands whose duty it wilt 1 be to simply milk and look after theeowe. We Bball be glad to Bbortly hear of fifirUier. progress being mndewith the. venture. ;,;