Cheese Factories.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 240, 6 September 1884, Page 2

Cheese Factories.

'• ■.- \\ • .■-,.--..v7. -o"'v ■ ' The reports of nearly all our new cheese factories seeiii to be toithe same eifec*-. — a email loss for the past season, but" good' prospects m th*e future. The Temuka JPactory: shares holders held -their annual^neeting last week, and the result announced was a debit balance of £469 i3a 3d, of "which, however, only a sum of £23 was a fair assessment for loan. This was explained m a^nTanner satis* factory to the shareholders, who are np|« atallrdisheartened.^ D^uring^tbA season the factory ueaw ' with iSoJaoSr gallons of milk, which yiulded ,93,095 poa nd>|of thee>e, oi *£ |PT<^^r|^n of n^ozni of cheese to the gallon — a more than average :j^ yield. Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Rockhampton, Eng- . land, ?aiid| <|Mier jnjac^ts 3Av^.b>e^[ tried. As explaining* liow the^work of finding a market runs away, with the money , m the course of the v ais^ cussion it was stated that, four, tons of cheese were forwarded to Brisbane which realised £279 lls Id. The cost of sending it .there, bjßweyeri^ swallowed up the profits, for of ; only .6163 10s 5d was received, tho 'expenses being £116,08 6d % The : •freight to LytteUonanipunted' to .£B' 1?8 3d, and the freight to Brisbane ■je.6 ; 10««- Th.iisitcost £2 753d f more, Ib'takeil to Lytteluin than it cest'to take it to Brisbane. The duty on-the four tons of cheese wan nearly £75. .