GISBORNE FARMERS’ UNION

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1526, 7 August 1905, Page 2

GISBORNE FARMERS’ UNION

A PROGRESSIVE BODY.

The monthly general meeting of the Gisborne branoh of the Poverty Bay Farmers’ Union was held in the Farmers’ Union Club Rooms, Masonic buildings, at 2on Saturday afternooD. The presE dent, Mr W. D. Lysnar, occupied tho ohair, and there, was a good, attendance. Mr Bouoher, Government pomologist, was present to deliver an address} on spraying.A REDUCED FREIGHTS. .

Acknowledgments were received ’ from the IJoa. James Carroll and the Premier regarding the Branoh’s.;resolution. in. connection with reduced freights. Mr F, J. Sullivan, Dunedin, exporter of rabbits, etc., wrote enclosing a newspaper clipping bearing on the freight of frozen rabbits. - He agreed that it was necessary to have some arrangement with the , shipping companies to bind them down so that they cannot charge any more freight from Now Zealand than was ourrent from Austrah'a. Mr Sullivan said he was a considerable shipper of rabbits, but the cooperation from Australia and heavy freights had just about knocked it out.

The Chairman said this neoossiiy emphasised the need for a reduotion in freights.

SHIPPING,

The Chairman read the following letter, reoeiven from tho produce department of the Bank of Australasia:—“ Delivery of wool by steamers : 1 enclose herein copy of a letter written by one of our firms of brokers regarding the delay in obtaining certain wools for the current sales, occasioned by the new method of stack piling their cargoes with the hoops on the baleß, adopted by the owners of the Gothic, Warwera, and Tokomaru on discharging their own cargoes, which method causes much greater delay than that formerly adopted. In consequence, the brokors havo been unable to offer the shipments in the first

days of the sales, thereby losing the market. As there is no means of bringing pressure to bear on the shipping companies on this side, I would suggest that it is of vital impoitance to consignees to arrange with the companies before shipment to have tbeir goods dealt with under the old method.” The enoloßure reads : *• With regard to the delay in getting certain wools for our sales, we attribute same to the ' fact that the ships stack-piled l their cargoes with the hoops on the bales This was the case with the Gothic, Wai- i I wera, and Tokomaru, and is a practice whioh has come into operation since the ships have begun to discharge their own cargoes. When wools are stack-piled the bales have to be sorted and weighed for separate warehouses afterwards. Under the former custom, when the docks discharged tbe ships, the bales wore separated for tbe different. warehouses as they were discharged from the ship and weighed on delivery.” The President stated that what had caused the damage to frozen moat on the voyage home was something on the ship, The oarcases were stacked on top of one another like bricks.

The following committee was sot up'to meet the Provincial Executive's committee to go into the matter : —Messrs J. Clark, C. J. Parker, J. A. Csesar, W. Barker, and W. D. Lysnar,