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New Zealand Mail, Issue 9, 1 November 1907, Page 36

O Jf; is stated that there are still over 8000 sacks of wheat in the hands of farmers in the North Otago district.

Mr L. McKelvie, of Lower Rangitikei, has generously donated ten guineas to th f, pn , ze fund °f the Mauawatu Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

Mr Charles Macdonald, first assistant ot the Nireaha factory, lias been appointed manager of the Linton cheese factory.

The shareholders in the Bunnythorpe Co-operative Dairy Company are receiving 10|d for their butter fat tbis month and non-shareholders lOd. Farmers in the Mauawatu district .are very pleased to learn that the Christchurch Meat Company has taken over the Woodville Bacon Factory.

The Rata Dairy Factory was seriously damaged by lire last week, tlie engineroom being totally demolished. None of the machinery, however, was seriously damaged, the supplying of new belting being all that was necessary to enable the work of separating to go on unhindered next morning

Mr Bendall, secretary of the Dairy Union, estimates that the heavy rainfall has made a difference of at least =£2oo in the amount paid out for milk during the month of September this year, although the amount paid out (,£2383 14s 7d) is slightly above that paid out for the same month last year, which was £2304 18s 4d. The cheque for tho August supply for this year only amounted to £779.

A' meeting of dairy factory employees, held in Palmerston in connection with the demands recently formulated by the Butler and Cheese Factory Workers’ Union, decided to bold a conference with representatives of the employers at Palmerston at the time of the spring show, probably on the Wednesday. The National Dairy Association having taken tho matter up on behalf of the companies, it is understood that an attempt will be made to settlo the points in dispute without having recourse to the intervention of the Arbitration Court.