SALEYARDS AT PUKEKOHE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 28 August 1926, Page 9

SALEYARDS AT PUKEKOHE.

SUGGESTED SHOWGROUND SITE OFFER TO LEASE DEFERRED. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) PUKEKOHE, this day. A special meeting of the Franklin Agricultural and Pastoral Society was held yesterday to consider an offer by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., to lease three acres of the showground in Station Road, Pukekohe, for saleyards. The president (Mr. W. J. A. Moore) moved the adoption of a recommendation from the general committee that the meeting approve the granting of the lease and authorise the committee to proceed with the matter. ! Mr. A. Best seconded the motion. 1 It was .staged that as the society was a public institution, it*would have to sell the lease by public auction. The term would be for 21 years, with right of renewal for another 21 years. The remuneration would be either a fixed annual rental or a percentage on the turnover in the saleyards, which the ■company would remove from the present site in East Street. ' The society would have the right to use the yards for show purposes. Messrs. R. F. Wilkinson and J. Roulston contended that saleyards were not suitable for exhibiting pedigree stock. It was also suggested that saleyards might prove a detriment to the society's property. An amendment was moved and seconded by Messrs. E. Allan and Dynes Fulton, that the matter be deferred until the annual meeting, and that a special committee take evidence meanwhile and submit a recomendation to the annual meeting, to be held in two months' time. This was carried by 23 votes to 2\, and Messrs. Allan, H. E. Wily, and J. N. •Massey were appointed as the special committee.