ORIGINAL VERSE.

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

ORIGINAL VERSE.

FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE FREEZING WORKS. ~

(To the Editor.) Now. Mr. Editor, old chap, You'll bide with me a wee, "lis freezing works we're going to build Close down by the sea. It is on the elevated sandy hills, Where the bushy lupins grow, .Tust alongside the Paritutu rock, „ Where the breezy winds do blow. It's an ideal spot for freezing works, '' It is the finest place on earth; There is shingle on the beach below, And that will be wanted first. We have drainage in the mighty ses, The finest drainage in the world, For the breakers will roar up the drains And leave them white as pearls. Now, the fanner has the stock, you

know, They have cows and 'pigs and sheep, And they'll freeze them in their freezing works, They will no longer be asleep. They will no longer sell to Waitara works, For it is a proprietary concern; They'll send all their stock to their own works, To which they will stick as stern as stern.

The? frozen meat they will gravitate. Right in the big ship's hold; Imagine what they will save in handling, Imagine what they will save in gold. And for water there is a plenty, We have abundance they all say, Up at Barrett's beautiful lagoon, Not two miles away. A water-race we will dig, my boy 3, It is the overflow we need, And run it right through our big

works. Run with all its speed. And as for strikes there will be none, They will never, never be. When the agitator comes along, He will be shot down by me. So it's push on with tlicse freezing

works, Push on with all our might, To have them ready for December's

lambs, We'll work all day and half the night. Now they are co-opcrative freezing

worlcs Built right upon the sand. Who subscribed tile hundred thousand pounds? Why, the backbone of the land!

So 1 will bid yon all good-evening, bovs, I will bid you all good-night. The freezing works are drawing nigh, You see if I'm not right. —P. J. COWLINii. Okato, April 5.