Original Correspondence.

Kaikoura Star, 5 October 1906, Page 5

Original Correspondence.

NOV. S YOvl GAIN, KAL KOttA. TO TH«SJ>!TOI(. Slli. Are hcreth.it it is impossibleHHlus to put our fat stock on thi’^Biii itglon market ata profit to over and above the store ■tve we have had to take in the irrespective of how prime b< ? Now thaW tin- Ex bib lion is '> i ink i I . e w<? drones ' C- to sec if there is not that we can compete parts ol New Zealand equally as far away and case- farther than we suggest that a meeting at an early date, of fat stock producers, but who have the interest of at heart, to throw suggest ions that would regaining tim loss sustained |a. t. Because we have we can ’ fatten.’ but we ha ve never got the butchers’ price ior our fat stock that we should, owing to our being so far back, ami our present shipping la-. cilities and accommodation so unsuitable, that the encouragement to test 1.h■ • fa!> market Im- been very poor. I t hink if the farmers would club together, ami say what stock they could guarantee, . ‘ fat,’ per week, fortnight, or month, they would get them conveyed to Lyttelton much below the present rate because, by so doing, they could be shipped by contract. Those who do not care to risk the sale of their stock so faraway from home would, 1 am sure, find a buyer here at a big advance on that which he will have to take if nothing is done in the matter of improving onr market. And no doubt Christchurch auctioneers would favourably consider our situation, and help us in every possibly way, probably giving us a rebate on commissions.— I am, etc., W. (.. DOYLE.