The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1881.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 657, 3 January 1881, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1881.

The importance of the company, to bo established at the Hutt for the pur-. poses of" boiling-down, meat preserving, the manufacture of artificial manures, packing of butter for export, and the condensation of milk" justifies us in agaiu calling attention to it. America lias shown that companies are better able to treat with and dispose of farm productions than private individuals, Any step in the direction of exporting our produce is it right ono, and there is plenty of room in New Zealand for half a dozen such companies. The present company aims, perhaps, at doing too many things, and. we would suggest the advisability of confining its energies to meat preserving, as there is apparently an expanding market in all directions for our tinned meats. In England our meat preserves are preferred to those of America, doubtless owing to the superiority of our stock. Mr Gear, of Wellington, exports fair quantities of tinned meats to the South Sea islands. There is a good opening in this special iirection, as beef is getting very pleniiful in the colony—indeed quite

beyond our own consumption. We hear of one breeder not very far .from .the Wairarapa who lias a thousand head of cattle to sell, and no buyer/ It would pay this gentleman to tin tK lot, and export it to England, y promoters of the company should Maider the advisability of offering/'*"' 1 a privilege to nnyone.who may avail himself of the use of tfylacfpry. The colony must not plac / 00 much reliance upon the ice-pao 3 8 process, at least as far as bocf is ■ kerned. We eriract^STtf^'' 0 ™! 7 / 6 / 01 " [JjWffig significant / k t [n tyr meat supplies are^, tioilsb t]ie present moderajfe Mif , h sensitiveness n« fcwoxtal lmu . wlaick ifglut/. e rull down lt]) m . dred c™ mul Meed) eve ? 2d f Est six months, in spite of during t, lS |g umen t s being pushed on lieaviej l ' licag | 1 j 1 . e aiu i Yorkshire towns r American beef has been sold

' ? u j#erpool at 4itl, and the same 'Eg occurs with the metropolitan Jfarkots," What will our Australian 'friends say if a cargo of beef, -.sent home at. a great cost, realises only that cost, leaving nothing for the grower 1 And this is not all unlikely to happen in the face of American competition. The ease is different with mutton,, for in sheep Australia .oould cut America out of the markets, But what, then,, are we to do with our beef? The only plan appears, to be to preserve it, and we are therefore glad to • sec a meatpreserving company come before the public, We must grow cattloif we wish to mate use of the .millions of acres of bush lands, of The preserving of meat is therefore likely to become a great aid in this direction. We should also like to see some private individual in the Wairarapa undertake packing of butter. A private person would give more attention to such a matter than a company, 'perhaps. If butter could always be sold at a fair price' the wives of our settlers would then find a fair remuneration for their labor, and- bush settlement would progress. The healthy progression of bush settlement is a j que'stion of much importance to this district;,"*--..