MEAT REFRIGERATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 741, 12 April 1881, Page 3

MEAT REFRIGERATION.

PIM jU Euifor of the 1 Waibarapa Daily.] m+MK,~lsi\im no hope of establishing ■H0B; business in Wellington Province 1 This question you bear everywhere, and its sequel, we are all sure that it is the thing to make the country prosperous. x Settlers would have a'certam market for l,Mr produce, meat, and butter, which, ulfcfc- to'wopl, are the main products, of the Wellington Province, especially of the smaller settlers. Look at the state of things as they are now I may work, with head and hands like slaves to produce, and when they offer their product for sale find no demand, Perhaps some merohant will, after much display of hauteur, and much Jjumble beggary on the'settler's part, make some arrangement (wliioh almost tnvivriably does not recoup the latter for bis labor.) This is no exaggeratd statement, but a fact of daily occurrence. The preskt peasantry of this country are fast sinking into ruination. Such is the state of those here, and of course people in the Old ..Country are (from knowingthis) stopped from coming out to waste their strength and means in producing what will not BeUjrat any price. • K the, capitalists are bo apathetic in taring .up such a promising " speo," is it

not in the power of Government to remedy this drawback, If meat, could be sold at 3d and butter at 8 per lb, which leaves a largo margin for refrigeration and freight homo, where it can be sold with a never-failing market at 6d to 8 per lb, and butter at lOd to Is per lb, settlors could do well, and emigration would ensue to engage in this business. Why should not Government got the plant necessary, and mako a charge to pay interest and allow for a sinking fund. It seems to me that that there is no scheme so incumbent upon the Government as this. We should see a prosperous as well as numerous peasantry and no rabbits if remuneration on this small scale was within the settlors' reach.—l have, &c, J.W.

Keminisckmes ov Wfliiu»itm»f,-lntlie year 1845 a worthy citizen pioctded his way with some difficulty through fern and ti-tree to Te Aro Flat baing in search of the survey's opeg which had been driven in at the corner of what is now Cuba and Dixon streets. Upon this spot was erected a small house, in which a very successful drapery business was carried on by two ladies of remarkable talent and energy, who have long since retired from tho scene to the 1 nd of their birth—

"Land o< the mountain and the flood, Land of brown heath and shaggy wood. In the year 18G6 it passed into tho hands of MhJamks Smith, tho present proprietor, who gave to the premises tho appropriate namo of Te Aro House, and under whose management business has steadily progressed with the rising fortuues of the city, until at length it was found that a considerable enlargement was necessary, and the result was, Te Aro House, as nt present, one of the most completo and Extensive Drapery Establishments in tho colony of New Zealand. The General Drapery occupies a large space, being 49 feet by 25 feet, amply sufficient for all Manchester goods, Fancy Dresses, Silks, Gloves, Hosiery, Ribbons, Laces, Ac. The Men's, Boy's, and Youths' Clothing Department measures 24 feet by 14 feet, and has attached a comfortable fitting-room. Carpets and Household furnishings have a similar space allotted to them, The Show-room for the wle of Millinory, Mantles, Jackets, Costumes, <k, is a very spacious apartment, elegantly fitted up, and beautifully lighted from the roof, and measures 39 feet by 22 feet. The stock of goods 9 at all times large and well selected, and patterns are forwarded post free on application. A speoial feature at Te Aro Hoiise is the Order Department, and very careful attention is paid to the wants of Country Residents. Allorders arc executed under the immediate supervision of the proprietor, and securely packed and forwarded to thoir destination with that promptness and despatch which have always distin guished To AroHouso, Cubatstreet; Welling on.—fiDVT.l