Correspondence.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 178, 31 January 1896, Page 2

Correspondence.

How to Supply Wellington with Fecit, Vegetables, " Butteb, and" other Farm Produce. TO THE RDFTOB. Sib, - Oar quondam Minister for Labor — Mr Reeves — was great on the platform / with windy platitudes levelled, at the - „ head of the " poor heathen Chinee," but ' there the matter ended. Nothing of a practical nature was suggested as to how to supply Wellington with fruit, etc., go < as to keep the trade ont of the hands of the Chinese and the people of Tasmania. There is no reason whyFellding and district cannot supply everything named ' , in the heading except tropical fruits. We can grow apples, plums, apricots, peaches, cherries, strawberries, rasp* berries, pears, etc. Oar soil and dim* ate, taken as a whole, is in oar favor. Nothing save a low railway freight, and a proper system of packing and delivery, is wanting, and if this could be secnred it would prove a boon to many a straggling settler, and also add greatly to the prosperity of the district as a whole. If the Minister for Bailways were to institute a system for the conveyance of , farm produce in boxes of a certain fixed size, say three sets. No. 1., lOin x 12in x Bin ; No. 2, 20in x 12in x Bia ; No. 3, SOin x 12in,x Bin; or any other dimensions that would be found, after careful inquiry, to be most convenient for the goods and also .for close package in the railway vans, and to deliver the same within a certain radius of the railway station in Wellington, provided the freight charged was a low one, I have no , hesitation in saying that a very large trade would spring. Up so soon- as tne w settlers became acquainted with the system. I shall be glad to form one of a Chamber of Commerce in Feilding to support this or any other practical scheme for the benefit of the district. I am, etc.; George Wilks. Feilding, 27th January, 1896.'