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Serving Farmers from Kildare, Laois and Offaly In a letter dated March �, ���� the they were not in a position to make any Department requested the IAOS further recommendation. to investigate the possibility of the Monasterevin separating station being established by Westmeath Co-Op, where there had been a recent change of management, with the help of share capital already subscribed by Monasterevin. In March of that year the Department In July of that year there were complaints finally confirmed that Monasterevin from Donaghmore and Barrowvale was a recognised co-operative under creameries that some of their customers the Agricultural Co-Operative Societies were being encouraged to sign over to (Debentures) Act and issued a certificate to Monasterevin. that effect. On November � November, ���� at a In the spring of that year a new statutory general boundaries row broke meeting (effectively the out on two fronts with Society’s first annual the Barrowvale and general meeting), it Donaghmore Co-Ops, was noted that the similar to the situation share capital stood in ����. Mr P Kelly of at £�,���. Harold the IAOS outlined the Carter was confirmed boundary rights in a letter as chairman and the to the Monasterevin Comanager, Bobby Cotter, Op dated April ��. The row was elected secretary. with Donaghmore centred By that stage the on nine milk suppliers who relationship with had previously supplied Westmeath Co-Op had to the Dublin District Milk cooled and agreement Board (DDMB). The Dairy was reached with Produce section of the Castlecomer to do the Department of Agriculture churning. and the IAOS got involved D-Day for but it was the intervention Monasterevin of the chairman of the Creamery duly arrived DDMB, Martin J Mullally, on January ��, ���� that proved most helpful. when the creamery He advised Donal began operating. As Grogan from Donaghmore stated at the outset Co-Op that he had not Monasterevin had been aware that the taken in ���,��� suppliers in question were gallons by the end of in the Donaghmore area the year and in ���� and he wrote personally to milk intake increased the nine farmers involved by a massive ��%, up explaining the situation. to one million gallons. Friction sparked again In ���� the IAOS, between Monasterevin which had supported and the same two the Monasterevin neighbouring co-ops application for a in October ���� over creamery licence revelations reported at on two previous the Monasterevin AGM occasions, advised One of the original newspaper adverts and printed in the Carlow the Society that, due from the ����s. Farm machinery has Nationalist. to new circumstances, come a long way since The chairman, Mr
Department Recognises Monasterevin as a certified Agricultural Co-op
Carter, was reported as stating that “the creamery’s aim was to serve the farmers of the county of Kildare, as well as those from Laois and Offaly.” The Donaghmore Co-Op secretary, John J Galbraith, brought the matter to the attention of the IASO. The Monasterevin manager, Bobby Cotter, made the following apology to the IASOs for the contents of the report: “I very much regret the error in reporting of a statement at our AGM and would you to convey our sincere apologies to Donaghmore and Barrowvale Societies for any embarrassment the report
may have caused. I assure you that the statement as published was an error and was not meant in any way to be unfriendly.” By the time of the ���� annual general meeting the building of a new creamery was already underway. The building costs were estimated at £��,��� and the machinery cost at £��,���. The costs of churning were then estimated at £�,��� per month. The milk intake for ���� was over �.� million gallons. Continued on page �
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