DAIRY FACTORY SOLD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19334, 26 May 1937, Page 3

DAIRY FACTORY SOLD

TAUPIRI PURCHASE SECOND IX WAIKATO (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Acting on the recommendation of iht Executive Commission ol Agriculture, the Taupiri Dairy Company has dis posed of its factory at Taupiri to a group of co-operative concerns. Thiols the second purchase to lie carried out in I lie Waikato. the Waikato Valley Dairy Company. Limited, another pro p.ielaiy firm which operated with Frankion as its headquarters, having been transferred in similar manner to cooperative, companies which cover the same territorv.

The purchase of the Taupiri factory will affect about 350 suppliers, who arc expected to divert their supplies to tin. co-operative companies when the changeover lakes place. Tile collecting services conducted by these concerns already reticulate the area, which was also served in the past by the proprietary company.

The sale of the Taupiri company's other large butter factory on the northern bank of Ihe Waikato Diver at. Tuakau to its suppliers was previously announced, and the settlers are to assume control on June I.

j The recent sales of factories ami goodwill are in line with the zoning polity advocated by the executive commission. J A system of zoning among the co-opera-Itive concerns on the basis of giving proIduccrs a reasonable choice of supply is I to be considered. f