AUCKLAND FREEZING GO. AND NELSON BROS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2767, 8 April 1890, Page 2

AUCKLAND FREEZING GO. AND NELSON BROS.

_ -♦ TO THE EDITOIt. Sin,—Not being exactly a sheep farmer, perhaps my opinioti is nut worth much, but it seems that a choice between the above has to be made by Waikato farmers. It will be within the memory of some of your readers that last year the New Zealand Frozen Meat and Storage Company made, what we were told was a liberal offer, viz., to freeze for farmers upon certain terms, and we were at the same time advised that we would bo very blind to our own interests if we did not gladly accept it. A correspondent suggested that if the company would make an offer to purchase, at a fixed rate (as Messrs Nelson are now doing), they would soon have plenty of business ; but that their previous efforts— the Mataura consignment, for instancewould not encourage anyone to trust very much to their hands. This called forth a letter—apparently from the Chairman of the Company—in which it was stated that no matter what the farmers might wish, the Company would please themselves as to their line of business. Quite right, too, if they could afford it, but we have our own side to look to ; and I think most will agree with me, that hitherto the Company has not done us much good, to put it mildly. Personally, I have no knowledge of Messrs Nelson Bros., but as far; as my information goes, I believe thern to be the most successful frozen meat company in the world. My excuse for troubling you is, that I should be sorry if—as Mr Eisner put it at the Club meeting in Cambridge— that between two stools we should come to the ground.—l am, &c, War. H. Mandeno.