CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3896, 26 August 1891, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

The Co-operative and Farmers Alliance.

(To the Editor.)

Sir.—lt must be gratifying and satisfactory to the shareholders of the Association to learn that Messrs Beetham and T. G. Williams have given their consent to join the Directory. The shareholders will see that if such gentlemen lend their aid, their confidence in the proposed Alliance will be a success. By co-oper-ation the farmer, the dairyman, the fruit grower, the wool grower, sawmiller, flaxmiller, and other producers and the shareholders generally may sell their produce and buy what they severally consume in the most favor., able markets, and, as a proof of this, and of the success of such an undertaking allow me through your widely circulated paper to state the fact without a shadow of doubt, that the New Zealand Farmers Association of Canterbury, last year had a total profit of £10,804 5s sd, to be distributed amongst its shareholders, and that like Associations at Timaru and elsewhere are in a most satisfactory financial condition. The central position of the city of Wellington and its magnificent capacity for the cheap distribution of products to all parts oi the world, marks it out prominently as the natural centre for the present Company's operations, with necessary branches through the several populated districts, so as to enable the settlers in these districts to share equally in the advantages which will accrue to shareholders generally. As a farmer, I would therefore impress upon the consideration of each and all the necessity of becoming a shareholder even to a limited amount at present, and with thorough business men on the directory, the Association of the North must be as successful as those of (he South Island.—l am, etc., Farmer.