NORTH NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2191, 24 July 1886, Page 3

NORTH NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION.

TO THE EDirOK. gjo — In your issue of Tuesday last the shareholders of the North New Zealand .Farmers' Co-operative Association ate informed that the Waikato branches are being closed. I am aware that it is easy to be " wise after the event," but surely no one could reasonably expect any other remit from the policy which has been pursued in respect to these branches. When shareholders are forced against their inclination to take farm produce past the doors of the branches to the private dealers, for the purpose of collecting and forwarding to the Auckland and other markets for disposal, it is only a matter of time when such branches are closed. It should be hardly necessary for me to explain that there are a number of farm products which, though produced by each farmer in limited quantities, ace very profitable, inasmuch _8 there is no great outlay to produce them, and it is these small products that we have a difficulty in marketing. What produce will pay, which costs from £5 to £10 per ton to transport to Auckland ? And we have paid this during the past season ; yet, for instance, if the Hamilton bnnch had collected and forwacded in quantity for us, -from 15s to 80s is all that we sheuld have had to pay. Is this what we have a, right to expect? I believe I am expressing the sentiments of many of the farming shareholders when I state that we are indifferent whether their terms are cash or credit, or whether they have branches or not, if the association will strain every nerve to guard its shareholders from the present and utterly unnecessary freight <eh*fges, and in searching far and wide for (the best market for the disposal of anyihing that its shareholders can produce. — J am, your* truly, Whatawhata Farmer.

Messrs. Alfred Buckland and Co., will hold their next Ohaupo sale on 1 uesday, 27th and their Cambridge sales on the 31st. Yes ! It is certainly true. Ask any of your friends who have purchased there. Garlick _.nd Cranwell have numerous unasked for and «cry favourable commendations from country ,-uatomers on tbeir excellent packing of Furniture, Crockery, and Glass, &c. Ladies and *rentlfcmpn about to furnish should remember that Garlick and Cratiwell's is the Cheap Fur-I^huia-U'fcarehouse of Auckland. Furniture to SWclaswc; a'so Carpets, Floor Cloths and all House Necessaries. It your new house is .nearly finished, or, yoa are going- to get marred «i«t Garliok and Cranwell, Queen-street and'Lorne-street Auckland. Intending pur .^fcauera can have a catalogue acot fee*. ,