STORAGE FOR MEAT.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1917, Page 4

STORAGE FOR MEAT.

MR. COOPER AT DOUGLAS. Mr. J. C. Cooper, managing director of the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company, addressed a meeting of farmers at Mr. Newton King's Douglas sale yesterday, and placed before them clearly and concisely the serious shortage of shipping owing to the war, and the imperative need for the Taranaki Farmers' Moat Company, of which he is advisory director, at once taking steps to provide additional cool storage, at their Smart road works, in order to cope with the congestion. He pointed out that the new season would start with the "present storage two-thirds full, and that unless further accommodation was provided th? works would practically be at a standstill during the coming season. He showed that the Government was prepared to help them with finance to the extent of £7500 to build storage, if they were prepared to take up fresh capital to that amount, and providing the capital was obtained, there would be. no difficulty in erecting the accommodation, as there was ample reserve power in the machinery now installed for the purpose. At the conclusion of the address the majority of those present took up additional shares. Mr. J. C. Cooper will address meetings on the same subject at Newton King's Stratford sale to-day, and at the Farmers' Co-operative Organisation Society's Eltham Bale to morrow.