THE FARMING INDUSTRY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1482, 16 June 1905, Page 2

THE FARMING INDUSTRY.

IMPORTANT SUBJECTS. '(Per Press 'Aswoeiation. )■ .-*> Dunedin, last night. - At the annual meeting of the Dairying Association it was resolved that further endeavors be made to get a reduction made in fire insurance premiums on factory buildings and creameries. The question of the contract for the carriage of butter and cheese was discussed, and after. Mr Bolt (Taieri Peninsula) had taken exception, to the new contract, which was explained and defended by Mr Harkness, secretary of the North Island Association, it was resolved to f approve of what the committee ha§J done*in arranging and signing the contract. During the afternoon, at the winter show, Mr Gilbert Anderson, managing director of the Christchurch Meat Co., read an interesting paper on the frozezik meat trade. He said that not until the various freezing companies were got to work on a common understanding as to - the regulation of shipments, and methods of marketing products, would the possible results be obtained for the grower of stock. Steps in. this direction had; already been taken, and great as bad been the benefits of the freezing industry, he believed they would see a still further expansion in trade at no distant date. ■ In replying to a vote of thanks proposed by Mr T. Mackenzie, M.H.R , Mr Anderson said that with respect to the Premier’s scheme for opening shops in the Home Country, the Meat Company's shops j® Christchurch were lor sale, and had been a failure, for the company could not run butchers’ shops. There were any quantity of first-class butchers’ shops at Home wttb only wanted to be waited on and shown what New Zealand mutton was. It would be simply crass folly for New Zealand or any other Government to start its own butchers’ shops, and opposition with Very large organisations at'Home for retailing meat would inevitably be the result. New Zealand meat was sold now by all the best batchers, and he did not think there was much actual misrepresentation. A deal of meat was sold without any questions being raised. If that resulted in a very satisfactory price being obtained, the more their meat was distributed the better. As to the fattening of stock, it was all v&y well for the Otago people to trust to Canterbury taking their store sheep and lambs, but sometimes Canterbury had a dry season and did not want them, in case tho farmers might find themselves - one day caught napping.