ENTERPRISE REWARDED

Taranaki Daily News, 31 July 1931, Page 10

ENTERPRISE REWARDED

CO-OPERATION AT MOKAU. EARLY STRUGGLES OVERCOME. “Just picture the struggles the river suppliers must have had to get the factory started in 1922 with mud roads, heavy transportation charges and fluctuating markets,” remarked Mr. L. R. Jones, chairman of directors of the Mokau Dairy Company, in his address to suppliers yesterday at the eleventh annual meeting, referring to the progress that had been made in production lay the company. In the first year of its operations, ending on May 31, 1922, the company had 19 suppliers with an output of 43 tons, while the cost of manufacture was 6.29 d per lb. butter-fat, whereas during the past year it had 52 suppliers with an output of 155 tons, and the total cost of manufacture was 2.35 d per lb. butter-fat. When the factory first started, Mr. Jones added, the war being well over, boom prices began to break, but it was pleasino- to note that the early suppliers of the company, never wavered in their confidence that the factory would ultimately successfully surmount all difficulties.