KAIMATA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13732, 22 August 1908, Page 8

KAIMATA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

August 20.— Quite the even I of the! season >,o tar «;i> the complimentary .social tendered U> Mr (I. Maekie, our ; late creamery manager, o-i the 13th 1 inst., for the purpose of presenting • him with an illuminated address and a purse of sovereigns. ThehalLwus nicely r decorated, the stage being litted up as a drawing-room. A card room arranged at the lower vnd of the hall was ' well patronised. The programme, which comprised songs, recitations, and btep- ' dancing, with general dances alternating, appeared to give general satisfac- " tion. Mr W. 11. i.eech made the presentation and bncily referred to Mr ' Mackie's connection with the district. ( He pointed out that, in addition to managing the local creamery for ten , years with signal success, he had rendered good service in promoting the erection of the hull, of which he had been caretaker and secretary since its | erection; and he had also been sccre- , tary of the Kaimata branch of the N.Z.F.r. Although it had been said that Mr Mackie was an enemy oi the ■ farmer, still the fact remained that he had kept the branch alive. .Mr Leech then referred to what was, practically, Mr Mackie's- dismissal and said he considered it a piece ot persecution — simple straightout persecution. He then read the address v Inch contained one hundred signatures. The addicsb was as follows; — "To George Mackie, Ksq. — W.e, the undersigned residents in the neighbourhood of Inglewood and Kaimata, wish to express our appreciation of the active part you have taken in all public! i matters in the Kaimata district during! the ten years you have resided at that! place, and oi the kindly feeling which has always* existed between us. We realise that much of the success which lias attended all public i unctions with which you have been connected, has been largely duo to the energy andj business ability which you have dis- 1 played. Some of us are shareholders l in the Moa Farmers' Co-operative Dairy Company and some of us are also suppliers at the Kaimata creamery, belonging to that Company, and we particularly wish to express our regret at the circumstances which have resulted in our losing your services as manager at that creamery — a position which you have filled for ten yeuis with unqualified success. To Mrs Mackie and yourseli we all wish to tender our best wishes for a happy and prosperous future wherever your lot may be cast.' 1 Mr Mackie in replying thanked them most heartily for their splendid present and stated that he had always aimed at giving his employers a ''fair deal," and it was very gratifying to him to hnd that his management had given general satisfaction. He was not going away and still hoped to be of service to the district. Mr Leech proposed the health of Mr A. Corner. He stated that it had been said thai if Mr Corner had sacked Air Mackie when the directors wanted him to. he would have still been manager of the Moa Dairy Company. Whether that was so or not he was pleased to find that Mr Corner was a man who considered principle before position, and he thought a man who studied principle would be the man 1o study the interests of the suppliers. Mr Corney, in replying, said that in Mr Mackie they had a manager who! could not be beaten, either in tfiei creamery or in his care of tliO Com-j pany*s property and plant. He, Mr Corney, had had about sixteen years' experience of factory work, and he could honestly say Mr Maekie was the best creamery manager he had ever dropped across, or was ever likely to. Messrs Todd and Ma verb [er also spoke, the latter giving some interesting figures to prove that Mr Corney and staff had achieved better results than any preceding staff. Ihe following programme, alternating with the speeches and dances, was rendered durinu the evening: — Song, Mr L. Maekie;' song, Mr W. J. Matthews: duet, Mr.s Mi rich in and Mrs' Murwell ; reei tat ion, Mr Currie ; voiifi;. Mr !v. MeAllum, encored, dance. "Shauntreus," Miss Todd, encored; Irish jig, Mr C Cameron; song, Mr. I Schonen ; song. Miss li. Haverbier, song, Mr (I. Maekie, encored ; recitation, Mr Currie. lOxeellent miiMe was supplied during the evening by Miss Mackie (pmu^ and MesM 1 * A. Stoekiiiai) (cornet) am! A. Bishop (violin). The lie-in-hed-every other morning business is done for the present as the creamery will be running dai'y after the 20tli. Red waier has been troublesome in *<ome of the herds lately. In one hen! fifty per cent, of the calve; so far hs've,' been born dead, and the cow, are li.iv-! ing ;i very bad time. ' i