A CAUTION TO FARMERS.
(To the Editor of the Times.) Sir,—l observe an effort is being made by a Woodville Company to get the farmers! here to sign a guarantee to supply them with pigs for a number of years on the-prospect of their starting operations' here. '
I would caution farmers against signing any such guarantee. Let the Woodville Company come and start here on their own merits by all means, but not upon the merits of contracts entered into with the farmers.
I did not ask the farmers to sign any guarantee before committing myself to heavy expenditure in starting a bacon factory. Let the W oodville people do the same and I, promise to give them a fair square run, but let us both start from scratch without any handicapping bv guarantees. n J I am now paying Canterbury prices for bacon pigs without any opposition, which are, on the average, more than the W’oodvi 1® or Wellington firms have been paying. I might add that when my factory ia completed, which'will be in about 10 days or a fortnight’s time, we can handle about 100 pigs a week, and at the present time there is not one third of that- number of pigs available in the Bay.—l am, etc., W. D. Lys.var,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 519, 4 September 1902, Page 2
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