Woodville Examiner. (PUBLISHED BI-WEEKLY.) TUESDAY, SEPT. 7, 1886.

Woodville Examiner, Volume 3, Issue 281, 7 September 1886, Page 2

Woodville Examiner. (PUBLISHED 81-WEEKLY.) TUESDAY, SEPT. 7, 1886.

The annual meeting of the Cheese and Bacon Factory Company showed the determination of the shareholders to bring the enterprise to a successful issue. That this can be done there is no doubt. The causes of failure arc evident, and they can be remedied only as they are discovered. Cheese factories arc a new thing in the colony and, like everything else, they require a certain amount of experience as well as skill to make them a success. The causes of failure last season wore mainly attributable to defect in manufacture (whereby a quantity of the cheese was unfit for use) and to a great waste of caseing in some way as shown by the difference between the quantity of cheese manufactured and of milk received. That there was a great waste was shown by the richness of the whey, which evidently

contained that which should have gone to make cheese. During the season Iit,GOO gallons of milk were received, and the factory returns should have shown about the same quantity of cheese. But what do we find ? That there were only 97,100 pounds of cheese, showing a loss of 17,100 pounds of cheese. This in itself was a loss of .£892. There was a good deal of damaged cheese, which brought on an average about half the amount it should have brought. The

oss on this, together with the loss on the cheese deficiency would have more than recouped the loss on the previous year's operations. Both these losses, wo believe, will be averted on a future occasion. The Company are to be congratulated on having in the chairman of directors a gentleman who takes a hearty inY-e.r-cbt in the welfare of the company, and backed up by the present body ot energetic directors, wc believe that he will carry on his determination to bring the factory’s operations to a successful issue. The success of the Cheese Factory is a most important factor in the progress of Woodvillc. Last season it was the means of dis-

hursing the sum of £3,000, a good deal of which was foreign capital received from consignments shipped to Melbourne and Sydney; of this sum £I,BBO was paid to the milk suppliers. There can be no doubt that chccsc factories are a great aid to settlers, and their extension would bo a boon to the farmers thoughout the country. Let us hope that next season the 1 operations of the Vf oodvillc Factory will he so successful, that not onlj will the suppliers receive their full price of‘B4d a gallon, but the shareholders a full and glowing dividend of ten per cent.