DAIRY FACTORY MANAGERS

Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1931, Page 8

DAIRY FACTORY MANAGERS

CONFERENCE AND COMPETITIONS.

ANNUAL- MEETING AT PATEA. About ti.irty dairy factory, managers and . directors attended the annual conference of the Taranaki branch of the New Zealand Dairy Factory Managers’ Association, held at . Patea yesterday. Mr. W. Thorburn presided. The delegates and the speakers were welcomed by the Mayor of Patea (Mr. F. Ramsbottom). • ' . • Interesting addresses were delivered by Mr. W.°E. Gwillim, of the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture, and Mr. A. C. Ross,, dairy instructor-, Hawera. Some discussion took place on matters dealt with in the addresses. ' ’ .

The necessity of improving the quality of cheese was stressed by speakers, particular emphasis being laid upon the desirability of'adopting a longer period of' maturing the cheese- before shipment from New 'Zealand.

• Questions' affecting the industry will be further- discussed at a conference at New- Plym-outh on March 26.--The usual competitions were held and resulted as follows:—

Cheese competition.—G. Woods (Ngaire), 98J per cent., 1; A. McDougall (Oaoiiui) and H. -T. Foy (Ararata), 98 per cent., equal 2. Butter competition.—A. T. ; Tidswell (Tawhiti), 97J per cent., 1; A. McDougall (Oaonui), H. Le Fleming (Whakamara),.H. J.' Foy (Ararata), D. Cameron (Cardiff) and.O. Crawford , (Okaiawa), 96 J per cent., equal 2. GENERAL ITEMS.

It has been suggested in Manaia that, when the cemetery is cleaned by the unemployed : gangs at present working on it, people who have ' relatives buried there should offer the town board a small annual sum for clearing during the year. It is felt that it' would be a pity to let the ground run to weeds again after being well tidied by the working parties. With the lead given by the town board and the Waimate West County people, it is thought, should now take pride in seeing that the good work 'is carried bn.

R. P. ! Morrissey and Co. advertises particulars of sales at the Union Street salerooms, Hawera, to-day.

The -feature l of the Taranaki district W.C.I’.U. convention, which opens at Hawera at 9.30 a.m. to-day will be the attendance of Mrs. Peryman, Johnsonville, editor of The White Ribbon, and Miss K. • McLay, Auckland, organiser. In the evening Mrs. Peryman, New Zealand’s foremost woman platform speaker, will address ■ a public meeting on the temperance movement.