TARATAHI DAIRY COMPANY.
The directors of theTaratabi Dairy Company, in their annual report to the shareholders, state, inter alia:— The amount of milk received this season £is 4,010,271103, being 20#,2381b5, in excess of last year. The batter fat amounted to 156,4381b5, the milk showing a per centage of 3.9 and produced 399,250J bs of cheese, equal to 178 tons. Enoh pound of butter fat made an average of 2.551 bs of cheese, The past season has be°n a highly satisfactory onfj, enabling us to pay milk suppliers at the rate of Is per pound butter-fat value over the whole season, writing off for depreciation the sum of £77 15s 9d from plant and buildings, and providing a dividend at the rate jf 6 per cent, on the paid-up capital. Tbe whole of the season's cheese was graded flrst-olass and our"manager, Mr A. MoEenzie, is to be congratulated upon having secured the bulk of the prizes at the recent Winter. Dairy Show at Palmerston North, against many competing factories from the North and South Islands. The new ouring-room in briok has been added to and other improvements have been made during the season. Three directors, Messrs J. Monaghan, D. Reid and T. Reid, retire in accordance with the rales, and they are eligible and offer themselves for re-eleution. You will also be called upon to elect a director in the rlaco of Mr W. 0. Bayliss, resigned, and to appoint an auditor.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8201, 3 August 1906, Page 5
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241TARATAHI DAIRY COMPANY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8201, 3 August 1906, Page 5
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