WAINGAWA FREEZING WORKS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 888, 6 August 1910, Page 8

WAINGAWA FREEZING WORKS.

, IMPORTANT ADDITIONS. . (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Masterton, August b. . ■ The Wellington Farmers' Meat Freezing Company has dccided to add u skincuring plant •to its already extensivo plant at. Waingawa. An order for the necessary machinery, which' will cost about £1200, has been cabled home. - •At a meeting of the directors of the company this week,' it was decided to establish a fcacon-cnring works at Waingawa, when the necessary ; £3000 capital is: subscribed." It',is claimed that, by tlu expenditure 'of £3000, works could be provided which could not he procured for a private bacon company. for less than £10,000 i

According to a Taranaki farmer, a buyer of pigs has said that ho is prepared .to pay one farthing; more for pigs fed 011 pasteurised milk or whey than for those fed on unpasteurised 'food. ifr. Jacob Marx, of Mangatoki is reported to have stated tliat .if Taranaki fanners liad been in the same position as thoso of Australia in regard to the supply of butter boxes they would bo paying £12,000 a year more for them than they do now. Lately they had gone in for co-operation in Australia iu regard to buttej>bau<6.