THE CREAMERIES AND RAILWAY FREIGHTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 222, 20 September 1888, Page 8

THE CREAMERIES AND RAILWAY FREIGHTS.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—ln your issue of the iSfch itist. you report the interview which Mr Spragg had with the Hon. bhe Minister of Public Works re the carriage of milk and cream, and as from. the remarks of bbc 'latter it would appea i thati; ■either he does nobj;understand the matter or that he has ;bt;en toisled by, his advisera, I" trust you • will give space for^ blie following. It is f difficult to condense the subject, bub I shall-spare your ispace as much as possible. Lasbyear the Frozen Meab Company estftbliehed creameries ab various; places, among otht rs at Tuakau Railway Station. This station is distant, rpughly speaking, from Buckland 2^ miles, from Whangarata 2J miles, from P keno 5 miles, all of whipb are; dairying centres. It was then pbinted bub to the, Depaftinent that if a reasonable , rate were gi yon a -traffic would moab likely spring up between these places, .where .at- presenb there is virtujilly ; none, and ,that Irona each a revenue of sometbingvlike £33 for eight months might be got withoub.exira ©xpenditure. That is, whatever tvaflic there might be at Jpresent bet W epn these places, this would be entirely increasp. The answer received was that milk waß carried as cheap or clieaper in Now Zealand bhan in any of bhe other colonieSi and no reduction could be ,made The rate was Jdplir -gallon to ai factory: under 15 miles, and possibly* bhe same for returning the skim milk, in ' all, a* reduction; of Id from the price given for milkj viz., 2id per gallon. This, rate was prohibitory, and we had to fall bauk.on bhe dray and Fthe: clay roads; By road from Whangarata bb Tuakau sbabion is some five [miles, and the horse and draycould and did carry milk bhere and back, for |d per gallon or |1 each way Thus the action of the ptjwrbniefjjb, caused a loss bo. jhe, colony of revenue; whibK; inigbt":naye beeii got :witli no extra expense, and what is moire galling to the settler is that while revenue ia ihrowiiaway he is taxed to make up the, lbsa1 of tratna runningl empty. MrV Mitchelsbn gets the oredit of being a shrewd .busineßß;manV.'an'dv.if,,a.,q^nar:"-JBs'u^.w'ere'i pointed bitb to him in his business, is ib liftely that he would,neglecb ib? It then'appearsn^arvellousthab he'can]allow himßelf to be misled, because the matter is one of profit and loss:to the colony. If the three places named to yield as muoh as ■ Whangarata, then the increased revenue . would be £100, and as the' Freezing Company have some five creamevies the amount swells to £50() a yeari Gdverriment propose to teach us, by a first-class imported, expert; how to make cheese and butter; and the cost of this ex-, ■periment might just as well be thrown in the bob.^ or paid to out; railway managere, be* causeithough we niight be;told how to do;a_ thing, we .have riot iahd can nob pro Vo.e oareelVfis wibh bhe appliances^ = Ido not know, of •■'a single dairy building in bliis'; Auckland. • Province fit , for : the,.'-purpose. Wh'ab; is the : ii'se';6f first-clasß imported expert telling us that dairies should be stone buildings, to a great extent underground, and cooled with ice in the hob I weather, if we cannot get these things? A company,: like the Freezing Company or the v I Dairy Association, has those appliances, and i' i .t i hoy I ,and'the settler, only ask that reaaoni able ifacfllby in freigh te may be given, and that riot only, with no loss bub with every! prospecb i of' ah? inbreaisirig' pro^fc to the aepartmenfci—iam^ eta, . ■.■'.''■.'■■■ ";; -•.;.'■ ■■■'';':■!"■ ■■■■.'';:':' '.^JSt.^BvnsG,-... Glencairn,; Whangarata, September 18. Thajto, thif day. '• Gem (Waiomo).—The manager banked 13bz 18dwb of gold bo-day fropa 11 tons of Quartz.'" i:-'.'•.■■'.■.••■,';,'■;;;■'; t'^ry;.^. •■ --• ■■ iyL:-- > v'v ;r