The factory is erected on the Wairuna Stream, about 200 yards from the railway station, on land presented to the company by Mr James Banks. The building is 90ft long by 24ft wide, with machinery room attached, and consists of the usual receiving stage, making room, and curing room.
The machinery and plant are of the latest design and best quality that money could provide. Messrs J. B. MacEwan and Co., of Dunedin, were the contractors for the building and machinery, and have performed their work faithfully, Mr C. H. Duncan, of Waiwera, being their builder, and Mr F. J. McDonald their installing machinery expert.
Wednesday's gathering was attended by over 200 shareholders, suppliers, and visitors. Mr W. McIndoe (chairman of directors) presided. Mr Banks (secretary) detailed the history of the movement, and Mr McIndoe declared the factory open for the reception of milk, expressing the hope that nothing would stand in the way of all coming in and making the enterprise an unqualified success.
During the morning 125 gallons of milk had been supplied, and while the opening formalities were going on the manager was engaged in the preliminary processes connected with the curd.
• The Lyttelton Harbour Board has notified the Sumner Borough Council that it has no power to deal with the cave-dwellers at Taylor's Mistake. The council has decided to find out what powers it has in the matter.
One councillor said that a dweller was in the habit of taking his family over there for week-ends, and one cave had changed hands for 25.
- ODT, 12.11.1910.
