INCREASED FACTORY COSTS ESTIMATE.
■ Special to “Northern Advocate i J AUCKLAND, This Day. g a The staff of the Morrinsville j | Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd., has pre- ■ I pared an estimate of the increas- , * ed factory costs to be borne by ■ t dairy companies as the result of J * recent legislation. t b Increases at the factory are as B \ follows: 1 B Cream collection .... £2,600 S i Boxes £3,600 J s Wages £2,000 J * Sundries, freezing, etc. £1,8(10 i
Total £IO,OOO | The anticipated output this ■ . year will toe 3,400 tons, so that the ■ increase is, roughly "speaking, £3 , a ton of butter manufactured. i With the Waikato output esti- ■ mated at 70,000 tons for the year, • the extra cost is calculated to be t £210,000 for the period, this re- i presenting interest upon a capital jj of £4,200,000 at 5 per cent, per i annum.- This is estimated to be a J burden of £3 an acre over the , area involved. >
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Northern Advocate, 9 December 1936, Page 8
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