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quality of their output immediately wrote to the Department for 

 assistance, but not before the fact was on record at the Cool Stores, 

 when, under instructions from Mr. Crowe, I^ visited many of these 

 factories to investigate and rectify faults. Owing to the number of 

 calls coming at practically the one time, it was impossible to attend 

 to all of them, but the most urgent cases were visited and assisted. 

 Several factories were visited two and three times, and at a few even 

 as long as three weeks were spent before the difficulty was removed. 

 I was invited to attend meetings of dairymen, to ]jlace before them 

 the advantage of co-operative dairying, and to give advice in the 

 inauguration of new companies. Some of the newly formed com- 

 panies are slow to take advantage of the lessons of the past in the 

 way of providing sound and permanent buildings. The erection 

 of cheap structures from unsuitable material is a false step, and will 

 place the producers of the locality where they may be constructed at 

 a disadvantage as compared with others whose produce is treated in 

 better e(|uipped and more up-to-date factories. I also attended 

 directors' meetings for the purpose of discussing the necessity of 

 rebuilding and making additions to building and plant. 



