FROZEN MEAT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 790, 10 June 1881, Page 3

FROZEN MEAT.

, .To the Eijitor of the Wairaraba Daily StH,—The ; -recent articles you have published 'leave' no doubt that you have watched .withintereafc the progreaaalready made in the. export , of. frozen meat from ■ the ■ 'Australian colonifiß,"'t(nd the steps which have> lately ,Fee'n.,taken to form a "crimpy ivi 'tXQrteflin', for the aahiß purpose. EvteTrincV Mart' & Oof, of Syd- . ney, commenced their, I have . held'iifirrfi : belief4hat J R'^reat'increase 1 in thor price.ofj out;: iprocliice by. thija'm'tons,! yas only a question of time. The Protos v pf iiiilt cart 1 th 'be any -,a o üb't . »|io W&jilfte/ 'the settle'ra, bf sie.W(iiling- ' the E^^^WoplSSP^^hipments, , ■ proauccr/;a autumn^7 The ; : M\ ■ »! kxj'-.

past and present prices of stock in Otago havTbeen'and arej far'highe? tha'n'tours;and yet a ship is now being fitted up in Glasgow, for the New Zealand and Australian . Landi Company to losdM&i cargo jn | December 1 'January, 1 IhU jitter Company, it must bo noted, has j nothing to do with the one I first mentioned ;:so.t j only, in .tneat.r isi' our .opeiing better than theirs, but with our thousands of uncleared' bush: lcind,--what .a prospect for our dairy prcduce I This .latter will;eventually,.l feel convinced, be. /of greater. \impor tdhce. 'ihahi! even " our' surplus meat. I have been assured, by. tho two' shipping companies that on their part, ample facilities will bp forthcoming as soon as settlers 1 show 1 they, 'are in' earnest' by proceeding Ito erect: ther.,necessary freezing works ashore. From the in-, formation which' has been obtained by, the proposed Otago Company the cost 0 thepe is hot likely to .exceed and there ought to be no difficulty in. raising this sum among settlers and business' iW in this and. several .West Coast,districts ■ln;the absence of 'railway commumcatioi with the West, Coast, the works for bo.tl districts would have to be hear Welliilfe ton, - and ; neither having a Buffioientl large surplus to act' independently, ci operation.for thepresent i« indiapensabli Your suggestion of calling ft public meet ing to. cojisider the whole question is, L think, a good c-ne, and I am now writin 'several/West -Coast 'residents irivitih) similar action, and suggesting theappoini merit '(if a committee or committees' 'til attend a meeting of business men ; in ,Wellington, and arrange prospectus of a Oompany,&c. . : jln clobd connection with the subject is thp (ju'pstion of rabbit destruction, Invain will all our efforts at progress be if the produce of the- district is to be swamped tp thp amount of thousands as at' present by this peat,' Since a visit to Epgland in }8f4,1 have always been satisfied tfiat only effectual and common sense, way of dealing with the ruinous. difficulty is by introducing tho rabbits' natural-.enemies—the weasel and stoat. The difficulty of taming them has-hitherto prevented their introduction, but there is ! no impossibility in the matter, as one pair has been introduced at Kaikoura, • - Judging from a letter, {'have lately received {fppi Mr Pullen-a large settler : there—the' ferret has effectually settled the difficulty on his property, which, as it .well known', has been badly infested for years.- Summed up he says, where rabbits are very . plentiful, pojsp.p first until- they are tri|ppd dop, and then tuin Oflt {prrpt? in suliipipnt number, you will |iavp ypry' little trouble Let us then •' not Only fpHoiy Mr Bullen's footsteps with thp ferrots, but at once take . the necessary step's to introduce'the weasel and stoat. . Some people' tell us our lambs will suffer, I never heard of auoh n thing at Homo, although living in a sheep distriot, whore vermin of all descriptions were plentiful. Poultry would never suffer.here, as weasels avoid homesteads, except in a very severe winter. As for the game, let those who can afford it preserve as ip }spglapd. lanv&ji, ' . \V. 0. Buchanan.