CAMBRIDGE NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16236, 23 May 1916, Page 4

CAMBRIDGE NEWS.

manufacture OF whey BUTTER.

Since commencing cheese-making on November 1, 1915, the Cambridge Co-opera-tive Dairy Company has now • manufactured 53,4361b of whey butter, valued at £3005 15s 6d, some having been sold at 152s per cwt on the London market. When it is stated that this amount was recovered from what a few years ago was allowed to run to waste, it will be realised that the company's suppliers hive cause for gratification.

I About nine months ago the Cambridge | Co-operative Dairy Company purchased a motor-lorry for carting cheese. from the branch cheese factory to the central curing looms at Hautapu. The saving effected against the same work done with horses is £173, while the service is a much more efficient one. The result was obtained after allowing for repairs, a new set of tyres, and 20 per cent, depreciation. As the slack season is now approaching the motor will show even better results, as unlike horses it requires no expenditure when not working. Two tenders were accepted by the Fencourt Drainage Board on Saturday last for clearing the Victoria Road drain end the drain through Mr. Schwass's property to the Thornton Road. The tenders were 2s and 2s 6d a chain respectively. The Bishop of Melanesia, Dr. Wood, was the preacher at St. Andrew's Church on Sunday evening. His address dealt with the subject of "Sacrifice," translated into the terms of monetary giving and personal service. The bishop said there was an urgent need for missionary help from healthy and gifted men and women. The evening offertory was given to the Melanesian Mission.

The Mayor of Cambridge. Mr. M. Wells, has just received a letter from the Minister for Defence, in which the Borough Recruiting Committee is congratulated upon the excellence and thoroughness with which it compiled its report. The Minister added that if all local authorities throughout the -Dominion had done the work similarly, the Department would have secured a very much larger number of enlistments. The suggestion was also made that the committee should not disband, but should keep in touch with the men of military age in the district. The Hon. 'W. F. Massey also wrote to the Mayor on the same subject.

At a special meeting of the Borough Council, the. estimates for the ensuing 12 months were drawn up and approved, these involve little or no alteration of last J ears figures, the rate of 2s in the £ remaining as before. The amount of butter-fat treated at the Cambridge Co-operative Dairy Company's lows Y ry dUri April was, as foliows .~-bor cheese making, 41,7881b, equal at the rate of Is 3d per lb to £2611 15s of for hutter 859215, which at the rate « Is Id *** lb equals £285 Is 4d. 'These ijures represent a slight decrease compared with the corresponding period last year.