PROPOSED DAIRY FACTORY.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 75, 25 March 1912, Page 8

PROPOSED DAIRY FACTORY.

■ ■ '■ . AN-,ALTEKN^^^FGGESTIbN. ■The- i:-:foUojn'rig:''Mttwr^s-be?e'a''.'<ad-; •dressed to \Mr Ebe> jvrh° is. acting as ;■ *^retary:is.:^hjbv^reli^inary/work';in- : .cidental to "the proposal to establish 'a, dairy factory mear Riverlands, by Mir H. Gj Hill, managing director of the firm of Hill and Barton, dairy; produc© merchants, Wellington:— ■'■'■■. We see by the Blenheim; papers that you are undertaking the work of'promoting a dairy factory in your district, and'w© beg to suggest that you give us a.chanc© of meeting you and ■ yo-uxj. fellow ■ settlers, for- we claim to. haro a,far betteryscheme io put before; you without' going to the expense 1 • of a factory; ':■% We have just seen Cap-tain;-Eekford this fmornm^ and he is going to adviSo : vs1, later with refer<3E.c& to -certain questions such ,as &eiglit, etci^ ;Briefly/the position is this:r-^We have- a butter factory in Wellingtonccityy y and we are drawing .j . i.- <: supnlies of home cream : jm>3#iail over the district', and intend 'td-extend o»r- sphereof operations to 'Blenheim. "Now, it must be plain to jou that wto have-a very large: business, consisting;:of;4 or;s departments, ' |ii« cost qf jri^fliijg/'biir manufacturing business^^fothucnv less • than ; it - ; would^.be^^f;:--' were doing nothing) = olse, so that youtwilljsee we will be . 1 • , able to pay;; a highey^jpi-icef for butter fat than your'factory-would be; able to; da on accgiint'iS£:tte expend of tnanufactiaring, etc}- Besides/there is no. financial-liability such as there would be in; erecting" a dairy factory ml your Jowrisdistrt-ctV and after all we pi^ume-it is only a question of getTbmg the best price.: for your butter fab. We shall- be pleaded ir you will gjve us an;opporfcsiriity for either the ._ . vhcrfcar or Mr ■ Barton, to go to Blehlieam and see^ you suid the settlers ort .^% .patter,- when the,who|e position --, «pi ;l>©*>!nio»a^hi>r6ughly -explained t«an by Jettor-waitihg.'f ■ '