AUROA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8101, 3 October 1904, Page 2

AUROA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

An epoch-making event in the history of Auroa was the opening last Saturday of Mr Joll's new Auroa creamery at the junction of the Skeet and Taikatu roads. It is not long since that a few dairy farmers approached Mr Joll on the subject and, getting a guarantee, he immediately took things in hand, the result being one of the most up-to-date creameries in the colony. No expense has been spared, and everything that could be suggested to add to the convenience of both suppliers and employees has been carried out. The building, which was entrusted to the capable hands of Messrs Cave and Robinson, and was finished in their usual first-class style, stands on a concrete foundation on the bank of the Taikatu stream. The receiving stand is completely covered in, a great ooon in wot weather, and is fitted with a steam hoist. Inside, just below the stand is a large pasteuriser,, worked with the exhaust steam from the engine. The cream is separated by two 440 de Laval separators. From the separators the cream is taken by a patent cream elevator to the cooler. The engine room is fitted with a four-horse power Luke engine and boiler, with a steam gauge in full view of the stage. The skimmed milk tank in front of the creamery is fitted with Cooper's patent skimmed milk weighing machine, worked from the stage, which automatically deducts the percentage of butter-fat. As it is impossible to tamper with it, the usual barneys as to whether the man in front is taking more than his whack will be entirely done away with. Mr J. D. Proffitt was the first of the thirteen suppliers who on the opening day delivered over seven thousand pounds of milk. Owing to the examinations coming so close after the holidays, the school committee applied to the Education Board to postpone the holidays in Auroa, but was informed that the Board had not power to grant their request. Much sympathy is felt for Mr and Mrs Rickets in the sad loss of their little girl, who died suddenly last Monday morning. A dastardly outrage was perpetrated here by some drunken ruffians hurling a boulder through a front window of Mr Proffit's residence on their way home from the races last Wednesday night. It was lucky that they did not choose the next window as they would in all probability have killed some of the children who were sleeping in front of it. Information has been laid with the police, and when caught, it is to be hoped that the blackguards will receive the punishment they deserve, and that is a first-class flogging. An accident, which very nearly ended seriously happened to Mr Schinkle on Thursday morning, when on his way out to Hawera. When crossing an embankment on the Skect road, the horse he was driving shied at a sheep, and capsized the trap into a creek. Mr Schinkle, sen., was pinned down in the creek with the trap on top of him, and narrowly escaped drowning before it could be removed.