KAWHATAU NOTES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10736, 29 August 1913, Page 6

KAWHATAU NOTES.

From Our Own Correspondent. During recent years there has been a marked increase in the dairying industry in Kawhatau district. Many reasons are adduced to account for this, and to this day roughly three-fourths of the settlers are preparing for the coming season, which no doubt, will open in about three weeks’ time. Yet in spitb of this great increase of suppliers and number of cows the directors of Ohutu Dairy Company have thought fit to close down our creamery for this season, and to collect the cream by means of a cream cart, thereby curtailing expense. At a well-attended meeting of dairymen it was unanimously decided to forward anetition to tbe manager of the Ohutu Dairy Company, requesting that in the event of a cream cart being sent round to collect the cream cans that the cream be weighed and that a test be taken in the presence of the supplier and the person taking delivery. One and all thought it unreasonable to expect suppliers to forward their cream to Utiku without first being furnished with the weights at this end, though no one doubted the honesty of tbe Company receiving same. Discussions arose as to the number and kind of cream cans to be supplied by the Company and upon a question being asked by one of the suppliers as to what constituted a float in a cream can he was humorously informed that it was something used to keep the cream from sinking.