OTOROHANGA NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 1858, 6 September 1923, Page 2

OTOROHANGA NEWS.

(Own Correspondent.)

N.Z. CO-OP. BUTTER FACTORY.

A meeting was held at the above factory for the purpose of considering the advisability of forming a subsidiary branch here of the Waikato Dairy Club. The manager (Mr R. Harris) presided, and spoke of the very great benefits to be derived by those who wished to perfect their callings as butter makers and producers. He stressed the point that one of the most important matters in connection with the manufacture of dairy products was the need for absolute cleanliness in all of the operations from the cow bail to the finished product placed on the market. He then called on Mr D. W. Selbie (grader at the local factory) to read a paper prepared by that gentleman upon the cntrol of bacterial contamination in regard to milk and its products. Mr Selbie dealt very fully with all the aspects of bacterial contamination and the results that would surely occur if cleanliness were not to be the slogan of the great industry in review. Mr Selbie was warmly thanked for his very excellent and lucid paper, and the answers given to various questions asked.

It was unanimously decided to form a subsidiary branch of the Dairy Club. The Government instructor (Mr Thompson) was elected president, and Mr Harry Lawrence secretary and treasurer.

The annual subscriptions were fixed at 3s, 2s 6d of which is remitted to the parent body as affiliation fee. ACCIDENT.

Mr John Falconer (of J. Falconer and Son) met with a rather severe and most painful accident the other day. He was thrown heavily from his bicycle, owing to a loose mudguard becoming detached and catching in the wheel, with the result that his elbow was badly dislocated, and two bones in his arm were fractured. Dr Nicholson was quickly in attendance, and set the injured limb, but as there was some splintered bone it was thought advisable to send the sufferer to the Hamilton Hospital for X-rays treatment. It will be some considerable time before Mr Falconer can regain the use of his arm, which is most unfortunate, as this is the busy period of the year.

SALE OF CONTRACTOR'S PLANT. At the sale of the large plant of Messrs McDonald and Smith, and Morton, on Friday, splendid prices for draught horses were obtained, almost a clearance of the whole plant being made at auction. Buyers were present from Auckland in force, and many of the animals bought are for work in that city. CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL. Mr Strong, Chief Inspector for the Auckland Education Board, together with Mr Dunlop, Advisory Inspector, were in town recently obtaining firsthand data regarding the proposed experiment of establishing a consolidated school at Otorohanga.