NEW BUTTER FACTORY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20668, 13 September 1930, Page 9

NEW BUTTER FACTORY.

BUILDING AT TUAKAU.

MANUFACTURE COMMENCED.

[by telegr.vph.~own correspondent.]

TUAKAU. Friday.

A largo up-to-date butter factory, erected at Tuakau by the Taupiri Dairy Company, commenced operations yestorday, when some 2000 gallons of cream were received and pasteurised, preparatory to churning to-day. The company has purchased an area of 100 acres.

The work of erection and the installation of the machinery and equipment were accomplished within five months. The capacity of the factory is about 2000 tons of butter per annum, and the enterprise represents an expenditure estimated at between £15,000 and £17,000. Three churns are already installed and another is due to arrive shortly. The receiving vats, pasteuriser, refrigerating machine and 2000-gallon glass-lined holding vat, together with the co-ordinating machinery, nil gave satisfactory service when put into use. Another 2000-gallon glass-lined holding vat is at present being obtained from Sweden. The refrigerator is an English machine of the latest type and is driven by a 30 li.p. motor.

The water supply tor the factory is obtained from the Waikato River. Two powerful pumps, 0110 of a capacity of 3000 gallons per hour and one of a capacity of 800 gallons per hour, lift the water and deliver it through pipe lines about 400 yards long to the factory. At one end of the property it is proposed to use the buttermilk from tho factory for fattening pi«s. This will necessitate the laying of a pipe lino approximately three-quarters of a mile long to convey the buttermilk Irom tho factory to this site.