ADDITIONAL COLD STORAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1918, Page 8

ADDITIONAL COLD STORAGE.

ACTION AT TIMARU. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Timaru, August 10. \ fortnight ago a meeting of farmert considered a suggestion by Mr E. C Studhohne that the fanners should ask th( Freezing Companies to erect additional storage at Smithfield and Pareon works, the farmers to provide the capitc required. Objection was made that only those providing capital would he detailed to tlio space, and that it would "be better to allow the companies to erect and the farmerg to pay extra for the storage. A committee was appointed to see the companies on the matter, and th>i3 committee reported to a large meeting today that the New Zealand, Company disapproved of the extra storage idea, and recommended concentrating oa getting shipping. The Canterbury Company offered to add; storage at Pareora if the farmers found £ISOO this month, the space to belong to tho subscribers pro rata until after the war, when tho building will become the property of tie company, At to-day's meeting a letter from tie New Zealand Company reversed its easier decision. Tho company will erect tt Smithfteld additional storage for at leist 180,000 carcases without assistance a)d without any conditions, and wfll carry a - as heretofore on full trade lines. Til was fully approved by the' meeting, it was decided to ask the Camtertmi* Company to adopt the jame line. ' It was stated that the shipping con l mittee would not send meat ships * Timaru, and a resolution was urging that ships be sent, as there toe j three freezing works within a radii) of

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