DAIRYING INDUSTRY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21879, 15 August 1934, Page 7

DAIRYING INDUSTRY

PROGRESS AT WHAKATANE ACTIVITIES OF COMPANIES LAND SETTLEMENT SCHEMES [from our own correspondent] WHAKATANE. Tuesday The very rapid development which has taken place in the Whakatane district since 1920 is reflected by the increased returns of tho ltangataiki Plains Dairy Company. The company commenced operations in 1920 with an output of 61 tons, and has progressed steadily, its output for tho past season being 3674 tons. During this period the other four dairy factories in the district have also mado marked progress, but the principal advancement has taken place jn connection with the development of tho Rangataiki Plains, comprising an area of approximately 90,000 acres. While there still remains scope for double or trebly the improvement in that particular area, other parts are capable of advancement, and development is taking place in the back districts, extending the productive territory many miles inland.

Practically all the river flats and low undulating country from Waimana to Te Whaiti, as far back as the boundary of tho Urewera Country, is either being occupied for settlement or is in process of development. The most pronounced activity in this respect is at Ruatoki, where over GOOO acres of rich river flats are being developed under the native consolidation scheme, and at Galatea and Murupara, where the Lands Department is preparing 24,000 acres for settlement. The Rangataiki area is also being extended in a southerly direction by the cultivation of large areas of tho Tarawera ash-covered land :in the vicinity of Onepu. This country, which was previously regarded as practically waste land, is being transformed into excellent pastures with homesteads dotted about in all directions. Experiments with this class of country have proved so successful that tho department has now undertaken similar work with the flat and undulating land on the western side of the Tarawera River, and extending to the corner of the Onepu-Rotorua, Road. The Onepu block, consisting of 2500 acres of Tarawera ash, has been divided into 27 sections of which 12 have been settled as small farms. The required farm- buildings have been erected and most of. the farms are already producing.

POWER FOR FACTORIES SOUTH AUCKLAND DISCUSSION [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] $ HAMILTON, Tuesday A conference of delegates representing power boards in South Auckland was held i?i Hamilton to-day to consider proposals for the reduction in charges for bulk supply of electricity to dairy factories. The meeting was held in committee, and no report was issued for publication. BUTTER-FAT PAYMENTS SUNNY PARK COMPANY [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON. Tuesday An advance payment of 9d per lb. for butter-fat received last month will be made by the Sunny Park Dairy Company, Te Poi. The company will also make bonus payments over various months amounting to about £2IOO. MARKETING PROBLEMS DISCUSSION IN W.AIKATO [from our own correspondent] ' ; HAMILTON,. Tuesday Two representatives of Amalgamated Dairies, Limited, Mr. W. Goodfellow, managing director, and Mr. J. B. Wright, London manager, visited Hamilton to-day and conferred with the directors of the New Zealand Co-opera-tive Dairy Company, Limited. Marketing problems in connection with dairy produce were discussed. A visit will be paid by Mr. Goodr fellow and Mr. Wright to the company's Waikato factories; to-morrow, and on Thursday a conference will be held with the directors of the New Zealand Co-operative Pig Marketing Association, Limited, in connection with marketing problems. NORTH AUCKLAND COMPANIES ELECTION OF CHAIRMEN [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] WHANGABEI, Tuesday At a meeting of directors of the Hikurangi Dairy Company, Limited, today Mr. L. Webb was elected chairman, defeating last year's chairman, Mr. F. Elliott. Mr. Webb was previously chairman for two years until defeated last year. Mr. Elliott is chairman of the New Zealand' Freemarketing Association.

The directors of the Maungatapere Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, re-elected Mr. L. Reynolds chairman and Mr. T. Linnell deputy-chairman. THE PIOPIO COMPANY OUTPUT AGAIN INCREASED [BY TKLKGIUrH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] TE KUITI, Tuesday The annual report of the Piopio Cooperative Dairy Company, Limited, to bo submitted to the annual meeting on Saturday, shows that so far as output and quality arc concerned the company has had a good year. Tho total output Mas 843 tons, an increase of 133 tons or 19 per cent, compared with the previous season, in the last three years the company has increased its output by 73 per cent. Of tho butter manufactured in tho season just closed 99 tons were sold locally and 744 graded for export, tho average grade beinc 93.316. Tho directors state they have endeavoured to make advance payments as liberal as was consistent with sound finance. The average monthly payment over all grades at the farm gate has been 7.58 d per lb. butter-fat. There remains the sum of £3704 in tho appropriation account for distribution and a further payment of a halfpenny per pound but-ter-fat over the whole season will bo availablo on August 20. Additions to tho factory plant costing £'1453 have been necessary this year. In comparing the payout with those of North Auckland factories it has to be remembered that the supplies of but-fcer-fat to the latter, factories are very much higher during the months of July, August and September than m the King Country and as a rule the oarlier supplies command a higher price.