FACTORY PAY-OUTS AGAIN.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13640, 26 August 1937, Page 4

FACTORY PAY-OUTS AGAIN.

(Correspondence is welcomed on interesting subjects, but we do not necessarily endorse the opinions of correspondents) (To the Editor). Sir, —At the risk of appearing to take up rather much of your space, may I intrude just to enter a protest against correspondents writing under a literary title which makes it impossible for a personal reply to be made to statements which are in error and are apt to do great damage to institutions and persons who are working exceedingly hard in the interests of the dairy-farmers of this district ? For instance, your correspondent signing himself “Butter” is quite in error when ho states that the United Dairy Company, Woodville, is paying 13£d per lb for last season's butterfat. The facts are that the concern named can pay, provided it writes nothing off for depreciation (a very wrong procedure in a dairy company), exactly 13.337 d. Another statement made under cover of the nom de plume is that the local butter companies are always behind other companies in average pay-out. This is not the case insofar as the Pahiatua Co-operative Dairy Co., Etd., is concerned and, if your correspondent will examine its records (t presume he has them by him or he would not make such a damaging and unfair and unjust statement), ho will discover that, without any Nourish of trumpets, the Pahiatua concern has been well to the fore every time an average butter-fat payment has been made. Its astonishing growth is tin* best proof ol its sqrvrco to its suppliers. And the larger its output the lesser its costs will be and the greater its average payment for butter-fat will become. As previously stated, it is only because your correspondents made incorrect statements under other signatures than their own, that our replies are indicted. upon your long-suffering readers whose pardon is therefore humbly begged.—L am, etc., J. G. BRECHIN.