WILL THEY PAY?
After all is said, this is the one qucs-' tion, and the irrefutable answer to it is found in otlier companies' experiences. Take the youngest, the Masterton Farmers 1 at Waignawa. Well, if ever a concern started under difficulties it was this one. Only a lot of sniall farmers to run it, the big men being either shareholders or suppliers to the two wealthy Wellington companies, while the district was overrun with agents of other works, telling intending shareholders that they were throwing their money away, that the works would never be opened for want of stock", as up to 5s per head more would be given for sheep than the Co-operative could give, and, altogether, the picture was painted so black that I, honestly think if the same tale had been told in Taranaki there would not have been found and equal number of men with hearts big enough to say: "Go ahead, boys, there's money in it so we are starting." And now after a slight loss the prolits were so enormous the second season that Waignawa is doubling its works and a glance at this table will show something more about profits:
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 286, 12 May 1915, Page 3
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198WILL THEY PAY? Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 286, 12 May 1915, Page 3
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