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Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1725, 26 July 1883, Page 4

1/1 - n4 Notices. I. HE NRW ; ZKAMND, •1 ,'MEAT>ANi)] COMpany (limited).- ■*^ Incorporated .' under «? the companies act, 1882.*' ' Capital £200,000, in 40,000 Shares of £5 Each. First Issue, 20,000 Shares of £o Each. Deposit on Application, 2s 6d per Share ; Payable on Allotment, 2s 6d per Share ; also 2s Od per Share within one month of Allotment, and a further 2s 6d overy two months thereafter, until the sum of 20s be paid ; the balance as may be required, but no Call shall exceed 20s per Share, or he made at lesser intervals than three months. Head Office of the Company : No. 120, QUEEN-STREET, AUCKLAND. Directors : Joseph Banks, Esq. (Fisher & Co. Limited) Auckland Alfred Buckland, Esq., Auckland Arthur Bull, Etq., Auckland John Logan Campbell, Esq., Auckland Patrick Comiskey, Esq., Auckland. J. C. Firth, Esq., Auckland. Joseph Howard, Esq., Auckland Every Maclean, Esq., Auckland D. L. Murdoch, Esq., Auckland L. D. Nathan, Esq., Auckland Thomas Russell, Esq., C. M. G., Auckland. Francis D, Rich, Esq., Otago James Runciman, Esq., Waikato William Steele, Esq., Waikato Hon. James Williamson, M. L. C. Auckland. E. B. Walker, Esq., Cambridge. (With power to add to their number). Bankers : The Bank of New Zealand. Solicitors : Messrs. Whitnker & Russell, Auditor : A. Boardman, Esq. This Company is formed for the puipose of facilitating and promoting the export of Meat, Dairy, und Agricultural Produce of this Colony, and ot all kinds of produce from the South Seas. The Company intend to do the export business for the public entirely as agents, nnd on agency terms, but it will be prepared, if such business is not offered, to undertake it as principals. The question ot the Meat supply to Europe is one of the most important of the present day, and is exciting great attention. The consumption of animal food food throughout the old world is increasing, through the higher wages earned by the masses since the growth of manufactures, and the consequent increase and distiibution of wealth. In IS7O the total value of the meat imported into the United Kingdom was £7,708,000 ; but in 18S0 it had grown to upwards of £26,000,000. This scarcity of meat has beeu partially relieved by the supply from America, but lately the rising price there has caused a falling off of the supply from that source. The application of science to meat preserving has opened up to New Zeiland this new and vast market for its produce, and the prospect which is thus opened to the colonists is most encouraging, and must add greatly to the wealth and commerce of this country. Mr Joseph Banks, Managing Director of Fisher and Co., has taken a very large interest in this Company, and to secure his services and the knowledge and experience gained by an established and successful concern, the Directors have purchased the extensive Meat Preserving, Butchering, and Export business of Fisher and Co (Limited), with all their Freehold and Leasehold Estates, Plant, Book Debts, Live and Dead Stock. The Directors intend to continue the business now carried on by Fisher and Co., and to largely extend their operations. The Directors have also purchased at public auction from the Auckland Harbour Board, the finest site in New Zealand for the purpose of the Company. They propose erecting immediately upon this site a firsit-class plant for freezing meat for export, chilled chambers for a Dead Meat Market, nnd General export Stores. This site is situated at the Railway Terminus, and the Works to be constructed by agreement between the Harbour Board nnd the Company will be connected with the railway by n line of rails, and be on the finest de«pwater wharf in Auckland, whore ships drawing 25 feet of water can come alongside Jllld LOAD A CARGO OF FROZEN MhAT IN 48 HOURS. The Works will be commenced forthwith, and the Directors believe that within 12 months they will have their Freezing Plant, Meat Stores, Market and Export Stores ready for use. The DEAD MEAT STORE and MARKET will have a capacity sufficient to store a cargo for the largest ship, and also to provide storage for tin* local wants of Auckland. It is believed when these capacious chilled Stores are ready, they will bo used by Stock-owners, not only as a depot for the Meat cargoes intended for Shipment, but also as the Depository for the stock they havo for sale, ) and by tho Butchers as a Reserve Store for their meat until required to meet the daily wants of thoir Retail Business. The Butchers, and through them every householder in and around Auckland, will be largely benefited by having a constant supply of prime meat, in first-class condition, during our hot summer weather as well as iv winter. The well-known large loss of meat in hot weather, for which the retail purchaser has in reality to pay, will be completely avoided by utilising the Company's chilling stores. Provision will also be made for Cool Chambers for Dairy Produce, Butter, Cheese, Milk, and a separate Chamber for Fish supply. Connected with this Branch of the Company's business will be the manufacture of Ice, which will be made on a large scale and sold (still at a large profit), at very much lower rates than have yet been known in Auckland. It is not intended to confine the operations of the Company to the Provincial District of Auckland. It will seek to collect stock and produce from other portions of the North Island, and will either directly itself, or with the co-operation of other, districts, provide suitable local means and appliances and transit by which the Company's constituents can reap the benefits of the Company's storage and export facilities and market in Aucklard, England, and other places. Mr Banks is now in America, and will, at Chicago, engage Expei ts in the Canning and Meat Preserving trade. Though New Zealand meat is admitted to be superior to American, yet superior skill and knowledge of the trade has hitherto enabled America to supply a better article in tinned and preserved meats, thau any supplied from New Zealand or the Australian Colonies. This difficulty the Directors hope shortly to overcome, and soon to be able to supply tinned and preserved meats that w,ill compete with that of the best produce houses of Gliicago. The demand throughout Europe and the East for tinned find preserved meats of this class, is practically unlitr.i- j ted, and a direct trade between Aubk- ' land, 1 liulia, China, and Japan isgradu-j ally growing tip. , , ' (1 The Canningof Meat on a' Ip-r^e' scali, and in the first-class mode proposed, j/f ill, practically, be a new iildustry ) 'a'mong' us that will give constant' employment to a considerable number 1 of i-workmen, ; wjll also a large quantity, |O O f meat in aVmueU more t adyaptageoiiB^an<l (profitable Vhanher than is jit^present possible, aß,theXJom l pany i ;Wilf haye the^qptiptt of canning or freezing^ it.^ 'i'2'i "', ?/< * \>% , "' AsC tjjejj^neral , Export^Stfe fSI^M the :Comjp|my^^;imm^diately erect' in? Ancjclan^, 'on' wieir> railway, and * wharf . auces, tnoy^|nu)^t ! gpnitnan(t.,t.tue[ ( support |