SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3792, 7 August 1936, Page 6

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

The Auckland Board of Education has confirmed the appointment of Mr H. R. Hill as an assistant master at Otorohanga District High School and of Miss M. I. Burton as assistant mistress at Kakepuku. Word was received in Te Awamutu this morning that Mr E. Miasen, of the Te Awamutu staff of the N.Z. Coop. Dairy Co. Ltd., who for the past four winters has attended the special instruction course at Massey Agricultural College, Palmerston North, had secured the much coveted diploma which, we understand, entitled him to accept a position as first assistant at a dairy factory. Mr Jas. Wilson, who visited Te Awamutu a few months ago and conducted services at St. John’s Church, to tell interestingly of life and conditions in Melanesia, is to return this week-end to conduct, the Sunday evening service at St. John's. Mr Wilson is intimately acquainted with the Melanesian Mission work, and he has stimulated a good deal of interest locally in the betterment of the natives. The retirement is announced of Mr Arthur Morris, butter factory supervisor of the N.Z. Co-op. Dairy Co. Ltd., and one of the pioneers of dairying, after an active connection of nearly 50 years with the industry. Mr Morris began his career in 1887, when as a youth he took part in the building of the Eltham Jubilee dairy factory, one of the first in the Tara naki district. He was subsequently employed there prior to accepting the position of manager at the Mangatoki butter factory. He later received an appointment with Messrs Henry Reynolds and Co. as controller of their factories at Tauranga, Inglewood and Ngaruawahla. The latter factory at that time was known to have the greatest output of any butter factory in New Zealand. He resided in Ngaruawahia for 28 years, where he became well known, taking a wide interest in public affairs. During his career Mr Morris has probably had more experience in the factory production of butter than any other man in New Zealand. Terminating a career of over 44 years in the dairying industry, Mr W. C. Dixon, superintendent of the N.Z. Co-op. Dairy Co’s, cheese department, has announced his retirement. In 1906 Mr Dixon was manager of the Thames Valley Dairy Co. at Paeroa, which at that time had only the butter factory with a few creameries, but It steadily rose to have three butter and ten cheese factories in 1920, the annual turnover then was £700,000 per annum, when this company amalgamated with the N.Z. Co-op. Dairy Co. Mr Dixon was then appointed supervisor of cheese factories, a position he has held for the past 16 years. One of a party of factory managers delegated to investigate the milk powder industry, Mr Dixon made a visit to the United States in 1918, and was successful in securing the patent rights of a process which was eventually installed in the N.Z. Dairy Co’s, three milk powder factories. He also secured the rights of an evaporator, the installation of which at the three N.Z. Co-op. Dairy Co’s, milk powder factories has been the means of reducing considerably the manufacturing costs. Mr Dixon was a prominent member of the New Zealand Dairy Factory Managers’ Association, having been president for a number of years.