NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 29 August 1919, Page 6

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Ihe question was raised at the Joll Company annual meeting as to the quality of the arfiele made by the Rennet Company at Eltham. '£he chairman said that their general manager was iwell satisfied with it. It took from 3 to 3£ ounces to feet a vat satisfactorily, but at tinieo lie had had to us© as much as 12 ounces of the imported article to get the same results.

The butter-fat content of cheese w*is raised by a. shareholder at the Joll Company meeting on Wednesday. The chairman considered that there was noihmg in the arguments they had seen j>ufi forward _ recently, jiamely, that factories should be ' allowed to skim rail fat above n 3.6 average. Whey 'butter brought 2d per To less than creamery butter, and some factories thought they should be, allowed^ to skim the fat above 8.6 and m&kq 3. into creamery butter, but the Government would never consent to the manufacture of cheese from partly skimmed milk unless it was so branded for the Home market.

Mr Viviau Riddiford nan offered the Government 6000 acres in. the Te Awaiti Block, near Martinborough, for sol•dipr settlement. It is understood that the Land Purchase Board will shortly inspect the property.

The report of the directors of the New Zealand Dairy Association for the past year shows sales of £1,388,972 8s Id, and the agency of £41,883 2s Bd, making a total turnover of £1,380,855 10s 9d. During the year milk powder has been manufactured at the association's factory at Matamata; also at Matangi, the temporary plant having been in use during the past season. The permanent factory will be ready for the coming season, and will easily be able to dry all the milk tendered. The quantity of milk received during the year was 50.646,6811b for butter manufacture and 17,621,3471b for ■cheese manufacture. The quantity of cream received was 20,730,9201b. The butter-fat paid for for butter manufacture was 10,513,4861b, and for cheese manufacture 638,0571b. The manufacture during the year was 12,600,4011b butter and 2,135,1351b cheese, 3,747,0721b milk powder, and 182,7441b casein. The overrun was 19.87 per cent, and 2.651b of cheese was made from each lb butter-fat. The butter-fat quality of milk was 3.95 per cent, and of cream 40.9 per ■cent. The skim milk test average over #11 creameries was 0.04 per cent.

Speaking as a tSrector of the Joll Dairy Uonipany, Mr 2. Chapman gave <expi ession to some opinions that are worthy of consideration. He was supporting .:). motion designed to allow ••dry" shareholders being elected to the board of directors and mentioned that, with the rapid expansion of the business of large dairy companies, the twiork devolving upon directors was becoming so great that he. questioned if a wording farmer would be able to give the necessary time to it. There were, on the other hand, men who had been dairying for years, but who had nowj .retired from active farming operations. They woie still shareholders who continued to take a keen interest in the -conipany'3 welfare, and xyhy should their experience and busniess acumen ;xiot be available to the company. The time was coming when the work of directors on large companies would'become so great that every member of. the Board would have to take charge of some particular section, and when that time came, men with knowledge, experi--ence and some leisure would be most valuable in conducting their business.