PROPOSED FREEZING WORKS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 255, 7 April 1915, Page 4

PROPOSED FREEZING WORKS.

MEETING AT RAHOTU. At (lie conclusion of Mr, Newton King's stile at Rahotu yesterday a mu ti"g was held to discuss the proposal to* establish co-operative freezing work.? in North Taranaki. The meeting was favorable to the proposal, and at its conclusion applications were received fur over one hundred shares, mostly in small lots. This by no means represented vie support to be obtained in the district, as numerous promises to take shares have been received. Indications show that the proposal when launched will have strong support along the coast. Messrs J. T. Quinn and Newton King addressed the meeting on the same line! as at Okato, pointing out that it would be necessary to have applications fr.r 12,000 shares before the company would proceed to allotment. It was emphasised that the site would be definitely fixi.d by expert advice, the locality being between Lepperton and Moturoa. Mr. Kingagain emphasised the fact that the produce would be shipped from New Plymouth. He also pointed out tliat the Government had fixed a price at wlii.'ji they would purchase beef, and the fanners should be in a position to sell to llif> Government.

Mr. W. R. Wright considered that ;t would pay the dairy farmer to take up one share for every cow he expected to cull out annually. He considered tlii'.t there was ample room for the freezing works in Taranaki.

Mr. P. Willeox regretted that the proposal initiated some eighteen months ago should have been dropped. Ilad it been gone on with, the works would liaVe been ready now, and they would be receiving Cd per lb for their beef from the Government instead of selling their cattle for ,C 7or €8 per head. The 1 provisional directors of that venture bad, he considered, been very dilatory. Regarding the site, lie hoped the directors ' would give every consideration to Moturoa, in view of it being tlio future junction of the coastal railway. Mr. Quinn pointed out'that etan if tl.o works were erected at Lepperton, it would entail very little extra inconvenience to coastal people, while people of Whangamomona, Olnira, Kawhia, and South Taranaki had also to be considered.

Mr. Willcox then moved that it wrs the opinion of settlers of the district that co-operative freezing works should be erected on the best site the provisional directors could provide. In seconding the resolution, which was carried, Mr. Gibson expressed the hope tlmt the experts appointed would be endowed with a large amount of commonsense, without which an expert would be useless.

The following sliarM were applied for: P. Willcox 20, T. Fleming 15, E. Duggan 15, T. Harvey 10, H. Hopkins 10, G. Gibson 5, B. A. Lavard 5, A. Thomas 5, N. Monraii 5, R. W. Dawson 5. A. Monldey 5, W. B. Dawson 5, R. L. Eustace 2, Tl. A. V. Jordan 2, R. K. Jordan 2, and W. Rotliery 2; total 113. MEETING AT URENUI TO-DAY. A meeting will be held at Ur<"'ui a-ffcor-the sale to-dav