Wanganui Dairy Factory.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1888, 24 September 1886, Page 2

Wanganui Dairy Factory.

The annual meeting of the above company was held on the 18th instant, The Chairman in moving the adoption of the report remarked that it wag a long lane that had no turning. They had had two or three seasons of uphill work, but the change had surely come at last. Ordinarily people were in too great a hurry to see good results, and failed in the requisite patience to woik and wait. The balance sheet which the directors had the pleasure of presenting this year showed a profit of 25 per cent on the paid np capital, which, as the report 'stated, was something unique in the history of New Zealand. At the meeting held in September, 1885, the company being then in rather a bod way, it wm agreed to give contributors B)d per gallon of lllba for their milk together with all the profits. Had that arrangement been carried out, contributor! would really have made 4Jd for their milk, but the company would have been in aa bad a position as ever. As it was, however, there was now a sum of £419, the profit of tba season's operations, to be divided equally between a reduction of the bank overdraft and tiie contributors. The half coming to the contributors would give them a fraction ot a farthing over an extra halfpenny per gallon, bat at a meeting held recently the oontribu. tors agreed to take the halfpenny aa a find payment, and allow thesmall surplus () go to reduce the bank overdraft.

The 6.5. Tainui, which left Plymouth on August 14th, arrived at Hobart at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, ttha is doe at Wellington on the lUi of October Mr Whiteford, B.M. at Kaiapol, haa ruled that a special warraut is neoeeaary in alt oases to enable an Inspector ot Nuisances to enter private premises t j abate nuisances, A hare was shot recently in Canterbury which although in poor condition, waigheda trifle over 13*lbe. Giant specimens of theta rodente are not very seam in Canterbury, but the hare in queetion was an extraordinary tiue. The sportsman wko gave poor pose hot quietus baa bad the baad t|ifiad and nowH