The Patea Mail. Established 1875. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1883. A LAST APPEAL.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1091, 26 September 1883, Page 2

The Patea Mail. Established 1875. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1883. A LAST APPEAL.

Elsewhere we publish the account sales of a shipment of sheep sent by Mr W. Wilson, Whennaknra, to London per Lady Jocelyn. A study of the items should convince every farmer in the district that it is his duty to support the local freezing company. The charges in New Zealand amounted to £252 7s: lid of which large sum we should think somewhere about £SO would be saved, if a similar quantity of sheep were frozen and sent away direct from Patea. The Wanganui Herald makes a remarks upon the cost of the shipment,few and what our contemporary says is very much to the point and applicable to this district. He says “farmers must at once see that their interests are being sacrificed by mismanagement somewhere, and unless they take steps at once to protect themselves, the inevitable consequence will be their isolation and exclusion from all benefit derivable from the new markets opened for colonial produce. They ought to have supported the local company which was attempted to -be floated some time ago, and their true policy is now to establish a local refrigerating concern. As we have repeatedly shown, there is nothing but loss in having our business transacted in Wellington or any other centre out of the district, when, with the necessary enterprise, it can be done on the spot.” We hope farmers will take this advice and strain every nerve to make a success of the West Coast Meat and Export Company. Let them ponder over Mr Wilsons balance-sheet, and reflect that if it were not for the West Coast Company, there would be very little probability of any amendment in the charges on fnlnre shipments. These Wellington Companies are making a great stir to get the stock from this Coast by running cattle trains. In our humble opinion these trains will not pay either the grower or the Meat Company, and will soon be discontinued. If, however the Company find that they do pay, then it is a strong argument in favour of onr local Company. It is obvious that farmers would reap a double profit by shipping from Patea. In a few days the share list of the West Coast Meat and Produce Export Company will be closed and we shall then see what onr position in the matter is. We cannot bring ourselves otherwise than to think that the Company will be gone on with in a spirited manner. As we have pointed out for months past the individual prosperity of everybody on the Coast is at stake. Surely we are not so blind that we cannot see the grand prospect opening up, by means of the Company, and avail ourselves of it.