WAINGAWA FREEZING WORKS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10690, 9 August 1912, Page 5

WAINGAWA FREEZING WORKS

NECESSITY FOR BETTER RAILWAY FACILITIES. At the annual meeting of the shareholders of the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company, Ltd., yesterday'afternoon,, Mr J. C. Cooper, Ch.iirman'of Directors, brought up the question of/ railway facilities at the Waingawa works. Mr Cooper stated that for some time they .had been agitating I for a hag-etation, and pointed onfc that tJioir's was the-only concern of the kind which did not have this necessary railway accommodation. I'he company had offered to provide tho ncceswiry land, a:id to meet the Railway Department in every way, but so far they had met with _no success. Perhaps now that a new Minuter of Railways was in power they might be more fortunate. The want of a flagstation- hid already proved a very great inconvenience t.-> them, and in ! tho output of by-products from the works this was specially eo. Considering that from August of last year to June of the present year they had j paid to the Railway Department no j less than £IO,OOO for freight of produce, their application should meet with greater success. The railway i business, he said, of tho Waingawa Freezing Works, was equal to any' ■similar concern in the Dominion. .] Mr F. B. Lowes moved and Mr Groves seconded that the Minister of Railways be petitioned to make arrangements for the erection, of a flagstntion. at Waingawa.—Carried unanimouslv.