Other formats

    TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Dairying, Etc

Dairying, Etc.

North Otago Dairy Company, Limited . Head Office, Coquet Street, Oamaru. Factory, Severn Street. Creameries at Waiareka, Enfield, Windsor, Ngapara, Kurow, Duntroon, Awakino, Pukeuri, Redcliff, Morven, Studholme, Kapua, Waituna, and Waimate, Directors: Messrs J. Cagney (chairman), J. Breen, J. Mitchell, J. Corcoran, A. Bell, J. T. Oakden, S. C. Watson, and A. Don, Mr. C. W. Cooke is secretary, This company was incorporated in September, 1900, to take over the business of the Pukeuri Dairy Company, which was carrying on the business of cheese making, The new company devotes its attention to the manufacture of butter, and its output for the height of the season of 1903 was at the rate of ten tons weekly.

The Central Factory Of The North Otago Dairy Company, Limited , is situated in Severn Street, Oamaru. It is a stone building, divided into several rooms for the various departments of the business. The engine room contains a steam engine and boiler, a Pelton water wheel of 20-horse power, and also a three-ton Humber and Son's freezer. The factory has a separator capable of treating 520 gallons per hour. In addition to a churning plant and a full plant for treating and weighing the butter, there are chilling and freezing rooms connected with the establishment. Large quantities of cream from the company's creameries in various parts of the district are received daily, and there is a corresponding out-put of butter.

Mr. William Thomas Guild , General Manager of the North Otago Dairy Company, Limited, was born at Seacliff, Otago, in 1873, After completing his school course he commenoed his experience in the dairy business. For two seasons he was at the Omimi Cheese Factory, and on removing to the Oamaru district he became manager of the Pukeuri Cheese Factory, where he remained for six years. On the formation of the North Otago Dairy Company, which purchased the Pukeuri factory, Mr. Guild was appointed general manager, and has had, from the first, the organisation of the work in connection with the creameries and the central factory. Mr. Guild was married, in 1896, to a daughter of Mr. Alex. Isdale, of Weston, and has two sons.