RECORD DAIRY FIGURES

Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3482, 21 June 1934, Page 4

RECORD DAIRY FIGURES

THE N.Z. CO-OPERATIVE DAIRY COMPANY, LTD.

01,280 TONS OF DAIRY PRODUCE

In a general review of the past season's dairy production, Ma* C. J. Parlane, general manager of the N.Z. Coop. Dairy Company, Limited, stated that the 1933-34 season had once again seen the establishment of record figures. He said that weather conditions in the area in which the company operates, had been generally favourable to an increase in production, excepting in the late autumn, when a dry period caused a rapid falling-away in supply—imiore particularly when compared with the same period in the preceding season. His own company had again recorded a substantial increase in output, with the result that the quantity of dairy produce manufactured had reached th eimpressive total of 61,280 tonp.

The figures for the different products manufactured, were:—Butter, 43,640 tjons; cheese, 11,421; casein, 810; milk powders, 4776; condensed m.'lk, 633; total, 61,280 tons. This total showed an increase of 4854 tons over that of the previous season. Substantial increases in output had been recorded at all of the company's sixteen butter factories, the individual totals ranging from 4517 tons at Te Awaanutu (an increase of 452 tons over last year), to 933 tons at Waimauku (an increase of 120 tons). The nineteen cheese factories operated by the c'ompany had also recorded very satisfactory progress the total output being- 441 tons in excess of 1932-33. The individual cheese factory totalis ranged from 2239 tons at Waharoa to 212 tons at Kiwitahi. OVER 10,000 SUPPLIERS. The 1933-34 season was a memorable one in the history of the company, in that it had seen the number of suppliers pass the 10,000 mark for the first time—the company's records showing no less than 10,139 separate and regular supplies. Commenting on the significance of these results, Mr Parlane stated that such record figures could be accepted as a definite expression of the confidence of dairyfarmers in the sound policy pursued by the company over a number of years. This policy had resulted not only in the highest possible returns for butter-fat but had, at the same time, permitted of liberal financial assistance being made to in their purchase of dairy stock, fertiliser, etc. In this latter connection, it was of particular intere. t to dairyfarmers to note that the quantity of fertiliser handled on behalf of suppliers during the 1933-34 season, showed an increase of 7260 tons over the previous year.