EXPORT OF BEEF TO AUSTRALIA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2591, 19 February 1889, Page 2

EXPORT OF BEEF TO AUSTRALIA.

TO THK El)ITOlt. Sil!,— My o.tteution has just been called to your leading article of tho 31st ultimo on the advantages tha Waikato pusses-sos to do a trjdu in livo and dead sto-jk with Australia, and in which I entirely concur. It may be news, Sir, to you to know that an agent is now here, from tins largest cattle dealer in .Melbourne making .■■rr.iiigi'ineiit.s for iv regular supply from the T.nmiki di>trict. With thd port of IC-nv:.i i n-.-.w made acce-isible for Ihe Upper \V:iik.ito and tho Kuiti country, and' with ll.ft-i.ui for tlia greater portion of tiio remainder of Waikato, what is to prevent this being carried out to a successful issue, if there is only iu;i f ,y in tho business? Live and dead meat arc not the only things we can go in for, as with the various water powers that abound around Raglan and Kawhia, as well as their mineral and other resources, numbers of things could be manufactured to help to lill the steamers. Our Max at Melbourne is now in groat demand, besides our butter, cheese, bacon, preserved and diied fruits, dried fish, canned fi<h, Mingiao and To Toki timber for carriage and agricultural itnplo'tiMiits, jcoa.l and limestone, as woll as many other things too iuim?roiis to particularise, Wo have plenty of Aucklanders in Melbourne now fiat will gladly assist to make Mich an undertaking a. '.uccess, and with Mr Soutter so woll known to all Waikato set tiers as agent in Sydney, success scorns car-t-iin. They would also know what tho Waikato settlers' wants are, so that th<s steamer could have a full cargo both ways. Ljt us also send such quality of beef in particular, as well us mutton, that they fliill ask for more, as I heard a lady say some time since, who had been on a. visit to Australia, siio did not taste a bit of good mutton until she returned homo apiin. Now, in b >fch Raglan and Kawhia natural places exist where, at a small expense, wharves c uild bo specially erected for shiup'ng cattle, and where good paddocks adjoininj! could soon bo made, and where the J'jclipsa miu-o'-war used to lie almost close to the land at Raglan during tho late war. I hope. Sir, you will keep returning to this important subject until wo see it realized, or our Raglan and Kawhia friends may soon see. emissaries from Melbourne, now the land boom there is over, starting the very thing you have suggested,—l am, yours &c. T. B. H'i-.1. 150, Q loon-stroet, Anckland February inch, IUS'X