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GOIN ’ TO THE CORNER

Cream Routes

Comenéim max: 20th inst Moutwwfli‘up. 9th tWice weeklv (>an as fofiows .‘-----~-" ” .

Mondays... and Fridays . O’IAW Road Milo, West Cape,

{Lot 7 and West Point;

‘ - Tuesdays and Saturdays: 8m; Lot 6;. West Dewar), Mill River, Elmsdale and Alberton.

. Alma", Kildare, Montiose and Alba .. collected on Liqnday and Friday. evenings.

The oil-Guy Duty-n: & C9Id Storagc ;‘

LIMITED

The Agriculturist, Aug. 16, 1928

appears it was not possible to restructure and reorganize, as the Island Farmer later that month described the final days of the Alma Cheese Factory:

For many years this institution carried on most successfully and distributed a large amount of money

among the farmers 1n the way of dividends as well as in the way of wages; in addition, it provided a ready market for their milk right at their own doors. Came the depression and it with many other

industrials fell into the red ink column. The managers stood nobly by their guns for some years carrying on the business at a loss which they bore 1n the hopes that there would come the‘ ‘pick up”.

The Islander; later in 1934, called for a meeting to consider a resolution from the Alberton Dairying Association to wind up the affairs of this business and to appoint liquidators. The cheese factory was torn down and the lumber was taken to Alberton

and used to construct one of the exhibition buildings.

It is not known if there is a connection to the tearing down of the cheese factory and the ad in the [slander in 1934 calling for tenders for the building of a horse shed and the enlarging of the cattle shed at the West Prince Exhibition. Tenders were to be