DAIRY COMPANIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1920, Page 5

DAIRY COMPANIES.

WAITARA. >, .V* The twenty-second annual report ot tt* Waltara-Taranakt Dairy Company implpl J the pleasure of the director* that tht.MNt > ... for the year under review show a- auwuAll increase orer those of the prerioai MUHb and continue*: Hie local expert price* ft . butter hare been axed throughout the y*»'- ; and the same prices will be reallseij.for Da „ J, fairly largo quantity of butter still ftwtfjsjsjk ■ T.J For the coming season prices are stflt !*W," jj definite, but a -tubatsnttal advance orer lilt' season is certain. The director* hoped .ft ,je be In a position to make a definite *p* '; nouncement on the matter at the aJBHkI meeting. The amounts due to the commV in respect of 1917-18 and IIU-U butts* ''■ equalisation funds hare been received, «M' '■ 1 a further nine-sixteenths of a peeny *Mt i paid for 1917-18 milk, and cm peany Mr. >■.= 1918-19 milk. The advance this year hat ■V j been one shilling and sixpence per lb. tmttefc. % fat for butter, and 8d per, 100 lbs. ntlk fjr I casein, and the baalnce available will pep. .j mlt a further distribution of 2Kd per 4fc. '• : M butter-fat, making a-total of la BKd fl In addition to casein money. The otaetft a shipments have been very few, and the bojk -g of last season's make is still In atodfc la . *1 New Zealand r waiting shipment At 4jl» ~, " oiiseln has been dried and shipped on aln* &' operative basis, advances only have butn <W received on last season's make. When the year's product has been sold a final adjust- J ntent will hi> made, and your director* a» of opinion that suppliers can expect a further 3d at least for casein milk, when tile money is available, making a total of Sot less than lid per lot lbs. The over-run I Is 17Mi per eeut. The following statistics are alio tupsUed with the report -. Number of suppliers, Hglrangi 27, Waitara 55. total 82: sBUc received. ' 2,764.806 lb., (i.729,630 lb., H.!>24,4»fl to,! bu- j ter-rat. 110.972 lb., 290,424 lb, 41J,SM IbT: . I averase test, 4.19 per cent, 4.40 per eent., .■! 95,919 lb.j butter-fat, 19,154 lb, 1M81'lb:, j 83,330 lb ; average test, 34 5 per cent/ SU '.'s per cent., .; butter mad* (total), MTtifi''' ™ U>.; ow-rtta (total), 17,5 per «*«, ' «$