EXPORT OF MEAT.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 32, 2 September 1871, Page 15

EXPORT OF MEAT.

(TO THE EDITOE OE THE NEW ZEALAND MAIL.) Sib, —It is a great pity in a new country like ours when we have one object in view that we cannot all work together. I refer to our Export Meat. Companies. About three months ago a company was started in the Hutt which, no doubt, whatever arguments are brought to bear against it, is the only place where it could be made payable, and ho doubt the company would have succeeded had not some gentlemen who are slightly pecuniarily interested in a certain boiling* down establishment in Eeatherston seen that if a preserve meat establishment was once successfully started in the Hutfe the Featherston boiling-down company would be at a discount, so the gentlemen conspired together and instantly started an opposition company for the Wairarapa, holding out absurd arguments how far cheaper it would be to cart the beef and mutton forty miles than let it carry itself.

Now it has been proved by all the companies now established in Australia and New Zealand that without water or steam carriage it cannot be made payable. Interested people in Wairarapa cannot consistently contradict this proof. Also, in the Hutt, there would be a ready sale for the refuse as manure, because generally the farms there are on a small scale, but in the Wairarapa a farmer counts his acres by hundreds, so when one piece of land is exhausted he ploughs up a fresh piece without troubling himself about manure, even when it can be obtained from his own stockyard. Bones, hides, and other small items an all profitable when there is not a heavy carriage to be paid. At a meeting held on the 18th inst. by the shareholders of the Wellington company, a report was read by the chairman showing the sum of money required to start and carry on the works in the Upper Hutt for six months ; the sum required exceeded the amount of the shares already taken up, so the meeting requested the report to be published, and sent to the different stockowners in the surrounding districts, as an invitation for them to come forward and make one good company. The meeting then adjourned till Wednesday, the 6th September. It is then hoped that the graziers will show their sense and take up the remaining shares, and do away with all opposition, when the end is for the public good, by giving us a market price for our beef. —I am, &c, W.M.O.