The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, August 17, 1909. WEST COAST STEAMSHIP AND TRADING CO.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 468, 17 August 1909, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, August 17, 1909. WEST COAST STEAMSHIP AND TRADING CO.

We are pleased to know that the promoters of the West Coast Steamship and Trading Company are meeting with liberal support in Foxton. This is as it should be if the port is to be pushed ahead and Foxton made an important distributing centre. We must not allow the town to be so greatly influenced by the rise and fall of the hemp market, neither can we allow it to be said that it has been left for a Palmerston firm to recognise that Foxton is really the door through which the trade of all the fertile districts drained by the Manawatu and Rangitikei Rivers is to be captured. Who will deny that these very districts are not only the richest, but the most closely populated in New Zealand, and will, as time goes on, become even more closely settled. Messrs McMurray and Co., Ltd., in grasping the situation, are floating their business into the West Coast Shipping and Trading Company, Ltd., which will be the first company conducting the bulk of its business from Foxton and using the town as the centre of distribution. What this will mean to our town anyone with any business capacity will fully realise. It will mean that we shall have large stores erected, in which the bulk of the merchandise and goods will be kept, and only sent forward as required. These stores, etc., will require managers and staffs of employees. Citizens who have the interest of Foxton at heart should do their best to help the new company along. A perusal of the prospectus should more than satisfy sceptics.