DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 400, 18 May 1922, Page 7

DAIRY INDUSTRY.

LONOBURN SUPPLIERS' SOCIAL. A large number of suppliers of the Kairanga Dairy Company, together with llio employees, gathered at tlio factory at Longburn last evening, when a pleasant smoke concert was held. Mr D. Buchanan presided in the unavoidable absence of Mr A. Lancaster, chairman of directors, and the guests of the evening were Messrs R. 11. Meade, Government veterinary surgeon, and A. McKcnzie, dairy factory inspector of the Government Dairy Division. Several directors of the company were present. The object of the gathering was to promote a more intimate acquaintance between the suppliers of the factory. A similar gathering will bo held in conncctio with the company's other two factories. Mr W. Matheson proposed the toast of the "Kairanga Dairy Company." He said that after 17 years' absence from the district ho was proud to see such a well established body. The director were gentlemen all, and the staff were workers to a man.

Replying, Mr W. R. Hopcroft (a director) said it was an honour to belong to the company, which was trying its best to help the suppliers. The factory was one of the best equipped in the North Island, and had a fine man at its head. Mr D. 0. Collis also replied, saying that the Kairanga. Company had gone ahead by leaps and bounds since its inception. The surrounding district was one of the best in New Zealand. He had recently toured the North Island, but had not seen a district to compare with the Kairanga and Longhiirn, which had a good future before it. New Zealand butter, he said, was going up the, scale and experts were of the opinion that it was now equal to the Danish product. They might therefore soon lie able to command as high a price as Danish butter. It was 44 years since he first came to Longburn, and he looked back with a certain amount of satisfaction to the time when his father was the first; chairman of the company. If they kept: together, he concluded, there was no reason why they should not have the best factory in the Dominion. Mr A. R. Buchanan proposed the toast of the agriculturalists, whose profession, he said, was one of the most difficult. An agriculturalist could work all his life on his farm and then be able to start all. over again, as he would never really get to the bottom of things. Dairy farmers, he thought, did not go in for enough green feeding of their herds. Messrs A. Mitchell and J. Toalo replied. Mr Meade requested the gathering to ask any questions regarding their stock, and the diseases to which they might be subjected, but none was forthcoming. The toast of "Local Bodies,*' proposed by Mr A. R. Buchanan, was replied to by Messrs P. J. Small, Prouse, and Hopcroft. all of whom aru experienced in local body matters.

A number of other toasts were honoured. Mr Charles Brady was thanked for his work in connection with the gathering, which was called at his suggestion. Items wore contributed by Messrs Daly, Buchler, Scott, Brown and Dews.