MASTERTON DAIRY CO.

Wairarapa Age, 23 August 1934, Page 5

MASTERTON DAIRY CO.

ANNUAL REPORT FOR PAST YEAR. MANUFACTURE OF BUTTER A RECORD. The thirty-secondi annual report of the Masterton Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., for the year ended June 39, to be presented at the annual meeting of shareholders and suppliers in the A. and P. Rooms, Perry Street, Masterton, on Friday, August 31, at 10.30 a.m. states:—

“The total manufacture for the season was 1131 lons, being an increase of 153 tons against last year’s production; it being gratifying to note that the above figure constitutes a record for butter manufactured under one roof in the Wairarapa and Bush districts to the present time. Actual prices received for the past season were below those ruling for the season 1932-83, but owing to the full exchange being in force for the whole year, the results are slightly better than the previous year. Your directors authorised a further payment of Id per lb for butterfat supplied from the month of November to April inclusive, and now recommend a bonus of 4d per lb. on butterfat supplied from the month of January to April inclusive, this money to be paid on September 20, 1934, also the payment of 5 per cent, on paid-up capital. The cream grading for the past season was as follows: Finest, 86.885; first, 11.238; second, 1.877. Grading by the Department for export butter has been highly satisfactory, our Masterton brand grading up to 954 points, whilst the average points attained for Masterton and Lansdowne brands was 94.1 poin t§. Your directors are pleaseu to be able to inform you of the company’s success' during the past season at the various shows, namely: Taranaki Show, where the manager, Mr. W. Batty, secured two firsts, one second and tied with the Shannon Co-op. Dairy Co. for the points prize. We also won outright the Taranaki Society’s championship cup; at Waikato we were successful with one second and a third in the export class, and fourth in the Wellington and Hawke’s Bay championship; at Palmerston North we secured one second prize for a box of export butter taken without choice from a consignment of export butter—this speaks well for the quality of the butter manufactured. The retiring'directors, Messrs. W. H. Harcombe, W. H. Bradley and L. Rt Wilton, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election. Mr. G. W. Sellar, the retiring auditor, offers himself for reelection. (Signed) J. C. Elwington, chairman.”