The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1883. SLAUGHTER YARDS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1450, 7 August 1883, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1883. SLAUGHTER YARDS.

That bulwark of the Wellington Meat Export Company, Mr W. C. Buchanan, has addressed n third meeting, at Featherston, on behalf of the enterprise to which he has devoted so much time and labor, We are sorry to differ with such a persevering and indefatigable promoter of a praiseworthy project, but we fail to See that tho line of policy adopted in shaping tlift operations of the company has been a marked success in the past or is likely to be attended with the best results in the future. Tho prospectus of the company, published two years ago, made the following declaration" The promoters confidently rely on the assistance of all in carrying out what must not only be a profitable undertaking to shareholders, but also have an immense effect on the prosperity of the whole colony, by a large increase in the market value of its main products." This declaration must now be modified to read " a profitable undertaking to shareholders who are shippers" and even in this amended form it will not bo accepted unquestioned. However it is not our wish to throw cold water on the company because it has not as yet accomplished all that we expected from _ it, but rather to refer to one practical difficulty, which came prominently to the surface at the Featherston meeting, in the hope that a discussion upon it will assist in removing the obstacle. It will have been noticed by those who have followed the proceedings of the meat export gatherings that the Wellington and West Coast shareholders are unanimously of the opinion that the slaughter yards of the company should be established at Ngahauranga. It will also have been observed that the Lower Valley shareholders are agreed that the slaughter yards should be built at Featherston, It will again have been remarked that Air Coleman Phillips has come to the conclusion that the said slaughter yards should be located at Greytown, Coming into Carterton wo find a most harmonious consensus of opinion in favor of the aforesaid slaughter yards being fixed at that centre. Wo are also bound to record that in the northern part of the Wairarapa it is'considered desirable that these identical slaughter yards should be constructed at Masterton, How is this little difficulty to be adjusted, and how can Mr Buchanan, who sails on the troubled sea of public opinion, please everybody 1 In the first place it appears to us that the Meat Export Company has no money available for building slaughter yards in this district, and that on this ground it will be able to deal impartially with applications for slaughter yards. The Company is about strong enough to freeze meat, but we question its capability for either buying stock or slaughtering it in the place where it ought to be killed. Would it not 'be better to establish subsidiary local Companies to supply the parent Com--1 pany with carcases] We do not see

why one or more slaughtering Companies should not be established in this district and undertake the work which the Wellington -Meat port Company is hardlyprepared tocarry put, viz., to purchase stock ahdslaughter it. These operations could obviously be more efficiently and economically conducted in the Wairarapa, than in Wellington, - It is pliin for example" that a slaughter yard is necessary at the junction of the Napier' and Whareama roads if the stock from these districts is to reach Wellington in a fit condition for freezing. It would be to the interest of both country and township settlers to assist in floating a local slaughtering company, and with a little energy its success might bo assured. It is understood that Napier sheep must come to Masterton ov go to Auckland, and the establishment of a local slaughtering company would determine the direction in which they would travel. Settlers at this end of the district fully recognise the necessity of local slaughtering yards. We advise them not to depend upon the Wellington Meat Export Company to supply the want, but to at once set about building them for themselves,