JAM MAKING AT NORTHCOTE. MEETING OF SETTLERS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 305, 6 October 1888, Page 4

JAM MAKING AT NORTHCOTE. MEETING OF SETTLERS.

TircKK was a large attendance at the meeting of Birkenhead and Nbrthcote settlers held in the Mount Zion Schoolroom on Oct. 1st, relative to the proposed jam manufacturing company for that district. Mr Porter presided. The Secretary reported on behalf of the directors that they had gone very carefully into the matter and had come to the conclusion that at least 600 shares should be taken up before going on further. About 500 of these had already been subscribed. The question of the best course for carrying on the work was then discussed. Mr Johns made a statement in which he explained the basis on which his calculations were made. Lasc year, he said, two tradesmen in Auckland took all the strawberry iam he could make, and they could havo taken several timos the quantity. If the same business were opened up this year, it alone would give a good outlet for the products of the factory. Then there was the fact that from twelve to twenty thousand cases of jam were annually consumed in Auckland, and of these only about 3,000 were strawberry jam. He estimated that they could find a market for between four thousand and five thousand cases of strawberry jam at least every season, and this would have the effect of circulating soveral thousand pounds a year for fruit, labour, etc. To carry out the factory properly they would require the latest plant, with tin-making appliances, carts, horses, etc. It was too late this season to go into the question of plant, and it would be necessary to make arrangements forgetting the jam manufactured by contract, the contractor to establish depots k> receive the fruit so that the responsibility of the grower would cease. It was resolved that Mr White, the secretary, should be in attendance on Saturday evening next from 7 till 9 at the Zion Hill School-room, for the purpose of receiving applications for shares, with the object of bringing the number up to 600, and enable operations to be commenced forthwith. '

The President of America, who has been accustomed to use a glass of wine at dinner, or occasionally at other timet", is said to have yielded to" a request of Mrs Cleveland to totally abandon the use of liquors. From Ohaupo, we learn that of last season's wheat crop some 8,000 quarters, or 64,000 out of the 174,196 bushels grown, remain still in the hands of the producers, who will thus reap the advantage in the rise of. prices. ' , ,