MELLS DAIRY COMPANY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 29 July 1922, Page 12

MELLS DAIRY COMPANY.

7~ANNL'AL MEETING

r_.Tfl an __ll_? d ,meetinS of shareholder* or tne Metis Co-operaive Dairy FaeMokoia yesterday, wnen Mr ' C J JlawKen, chairman of directors, presided over a good, attendance. fcipea&inil bf the past season, tho chairman said that at the commencement matters did not seen too bright However, the market recovered later! Referring to the cost of manufacture the c^irman said that a reduction must •be made. Coal and firewood had cost between £1000 and £1100, as agakS f <45 for coal in 1919. The Mokoia Ind Ble? cc& d * neW c^y "tack and boiler, lhe manager had estimated S?. a Wf^ llt stack would save nearly a third of the coal at present consumed Carting from the WhSZ mara factory was too expensive. SpeakwSh ?f nerall -V. dairy companies must, thl^t -Dr f OSpeCt,of lower P™™> reduce tfe h&,° f m*nufacture. Referring to % gh qUt h- y 'of the butter Produced, the chairman thought that the a^ fomething tote proud of m that they had not out one box of second-grade butter through the Z°*h t far asth* P^-ouTfas con! cerned the amount paid up to date ™/n M S Sfr • ThT *« ""the! st «-S-Jl m £ all Probability is otd. Mould be the final payment i rJ? C: omm ien *illS °n the auditor's *c-! %T4 ? h£ rman 8«d that last yeari £1321 _had>een written off as deore-1 ciation, and'this year ohlv £359 had I heen written off. long as he had been chairman he had advocated wrft3^—^ when times wer^ good and doing the reverse when time, were

Mr Rothery pointed out that it had cost the company more for fuel this season than it had the previous y eaJ He woud have thought that when mak "Matter toss fuel would be uSd to a + Sked *lt ™s «ary mara * J manager at Whaka-

It was pointed out that after tho commencement of the. last sea Ton no one knew that only butter was goin^o be manufactured. * g gto Mr Rothery moved that the Whakn mara suppliers nay for their own cart ag£ Mr Barkla" seconded. 3rt' . Mr Herbert moved as an amend ment and Mr Davies seconded that cartage be charged as usual. ' The amendment was carried It was moved and seconded that interest be paid on fully P aid-up shares +W«Qw m7l d as-, an amendment that no interest be paid. There was no seconder to Mr Quin's amendment and the- motion was carried j , + A motion on favour "of fixing directors, fees for the coming season at 7s 6d I per meeting was rejected in favour of' v paying 10s per meeting. It was decided that cow-testing be carried on as usual, the fee being 2s* per Mr RD. Robertson. N.Z. representative of the firm of Andrew Clement and toons, Ltd.. addressed the shareholders on the subject of the marketimr of New Zealand produce. &' Votes of thanks were a-mrded the Tdirectors of the company and Mr Camp-j hell the factory manager. j Mr H. A. Lennon was reappointed auditor at the same remuneration as last year. The retiring directors were Messrs Hawken and Marsh, both of whom v;er© Te-elected unopposed. At a subsquent meeting of dirctors Mr. C. J. Hawken was re-elected chair- j man. I