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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 286, 12 May 1915, Page 3

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£ a. (1. Canterbury 8 1.5 0 Canterbury (G per cent, cum ' pref.f 5 2 (1 Cjivistcluivi-h. ( .ClO paid) .... 1(> 12 0 Christchureh (£5 paid) 8 2 6 Christchureh (£3 paid) 4 17 li Christchureh ( .€2 paid) 3 5 0 Gear (.€4 paid) 14 7 (i Gear (Xl paid) 3 13 II Wellington ( .G5 paid) 5 10 0 Wellington ( C 4 paid) 4 10 0 Wellington £2 12s (Id paid) .. 213 fl Another fact: It is the pickings, the unnoticed little unpaid for things that pay the big dividends. There are the tongues, kidneys, sweet-breads, tripe, pluck and casings (go into a shop and you pay Is !)il or thereabouts for a tin of six shoeps' tongues, but the settler gets nix for them, or the other little pickings I have just mentioned), tnen lions manure is at a ransom now. but the farmers thoughtfully make a present to the freezing companies of the heads and shanks, so tile labor is the on.lv cost, (.bey are at, besides machinery. I understand some of the supporters of the new works have been going round tile Jfnstei'ton works, and I would suggest that a circular be issued, stating what they saw, and also showing that t>f actual cost of freezing a* sheep is reported to be the incredibly low .sum of one penny. 1 would also suggest that a share be taken up for every five cows a man milks, or its equivalent in sheep or dry stock. lam increasing my holding to thirty-six shares to be on tins basis, and the poorer a man is the more necessity there is foe hint to get bigger prices for bis stock, hut be will never get tliese by keeping Ilia hands tight in his pockets. We have had enough shirkers in Tarnnaki over the war, so let us not have a dose of them over the new freezing works, —I am etc.. » W. U. Wnifi'TTT, Ealiotu.