FARMERS' FREEZING WORKS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 486, 20 April 1909, Page 9

FARMERS' FREEZING WORKS.

••SITE'WILL BE DECIDED Bt BALLOT. . (nr TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL COBRESrONDINT.] : . 'j : ■ ~''j' v ; ; Palmcrcton North, April 19. ! Mr. ,J. 0- Chairman of :tho'Pro- ! visional Board of Directors' of tie' proposed Formers' Frefiiiing . Works, .was Aa, Palmerston itonday.,.. In, conversation with a "Standard'.'.ropre3ent'atiVft, Mr. Cooper said that the "prospectus .was ' being, completed,, and would bo issued immediately; A' great many letters;, had .been received from. leading -fann- . ers ill tho Wairarapa ; and other, districts promising liberhl support, to the- movement* and .'Mr.'.'Cooper is confident-that there will be.no difficulty whatever in floating, the PaF"On, the question of site, upon which so much depends, and which is of such interest to this locality,;Mr; Cooper,.said that, it- was proposed to form a sub-corcmittee who would '.visit the proposed sites .at Wellington;'.; Porirua,FoJctony-. an.cl v Castlepoint, :■ in company with nn cngineer. '. Tho .engineer would draw up a report, and a printed copy of that ilpo'rtwould, he: sent''to' erery share-, .holder,<,together;.with a"ballotpaper,v.'aiid' 'bach : shareholder, would. be .aslred ,toV votd' in this way to arrive at a conclusion satis;' factory -to the-majority.' •• ''The; capital'. iof .tho ; ■;company "has, as is 'alteady. known;, been .fixect nominally ' at : £100,000, but it:has been decided that, as fe'ociil ;• as £10,000|f has been! 'subscribed, : .the .company will bp ' floated. •' _ Mr. • Cooper mtenciß/.to''P!>y, a visit to' this i district as prospectus, is - issued; find will adress'.'Smeefiigs in all the centres, 'while, the.■local.!fepresentatives'on : tie tibaid —Messrs. l Wingate,- : .. Balsillie,; 800 th,.,, and .M'llroy--will; bej .assisted .'by 'the' chairman in .a 'rigorous; canvas': of tho district. ' . '