PROPOSED CO-OPERATIVE FREEZING WORKS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3159, 10 April 1909, Page 5

PROPOSED CO-OPERATIVE FREEZING WORKS.

VARIOUS OFFERS. At the conference held at Woodville on Wednesday, of delegates from both sides of the Ranges, to further the movement for the erecttion of cooperative freezing works, the chairman intimated to the meeting that he had received rough plans and rough estimates of the cost of erection. He also submitted letters from the chairman of the Foxtoip Harbour Board, offering a site for works at the Manawatu Heads, and another letter from Messrs Dixon Bros., of Wellington, offering for purchase the Woodville Freezing Works. These matters were not gone into, as it was thought wiser to wait until the company was formed.

It is stated on good authority that the Banks Meat Company, of Wellington, have offered to sell out to the Freezing Company, and to invest value of their premises (some £8,000) in the co operative freezing works. The Banks Company has a very large wholesale connection with Wellington butchering firms, turning out some 500 sheep per week. The site is an ideal one for the establishment of freezing works, as there is ample paddocking accommodation, and a railway siding could be put in at very little cost. The water supply is particularly good, and the present buildings in a good state of preservation. The offer will doubtless receive serious consideration from the delegates at their next meeting. Those in a position to speak with some authority, maintain that the offer should go a long way towards bringing the proposed co-operative freezing®works to issue.