THE NEW ZEALAND DAIRY ASSOCIATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9132, 14 August 1888, Page 6

THE NEW ZEALAND DAIRY ASSOCIATION.

The Association is making preparation for the coming season's business in manufacturing butter. During the past week the settlers of Pukekohe have been waited upon by Mr. Spragg, the Association's manager, who was accompanied by Messrs. Itoulstone and Wilkinson. The result of the canvass is a substantial guarantee of support, even at the reduced rate offered for milk. The new business is therefore defi nitely established. As Pukekohe has had considerable experience in dairying ventures, embracing private butter-making, co-operative factory work, and the out-and-out sale of milk to a creamery, as in the present instance, its decision to again dispose of its milk to a creamery is evidence that the people of this, the most important dairying district in the province, consider this method of dealing the most advantageous. The district is reported as looking well. Cattle are in good condition, are calving early, and with the present promise of an unusually early spring, the amount of butter to be produced will probably exceed any previous season's record. The importance to the country of having an association to handle and market a large portion of this pastoral wealth is manifest. Following the example of Pukekohe, the Tuakau people have also agreed to supply milk to the Association's creamery, which is in existence at the latter place. A meeting of settlers was held at the Tuakau Hotel on Saturday last, when the decision above recorded was arrived at. Messrs. Brown, sen., Grant, and Wallace, three of the districts' leading men, were delegated by the meeting to collect individual guarantees from settlers. They will undertake this duty within the next three days. There is a disposition in this district to help the new business to get upon its feet, the expectation being that when once fairly started the present low prices of milk will be advanced. The question of what can be done with ordinary butter in the spring and summer time is now a potent factor in the problem of what is the best course for dairy folk to pursue towards the new Association. In every place where the Association has attempted to deal with the people its advent has been welcomed, possibly not so much on account of the promise of present good, which in itself is substantial, but for the future, which, perhaps fortunately for colonial human nature, is ever held to hold the greater prize. Tha j this expectation has reasonable prospects of being realised is the opinion of all who know the manner of constitution of the New Zealand Dairy Association. Mr. Spragg was visiting Bombay district yesterday. He proceeds to garuawahia oh Saturday next, where the settlers will again meet him.