A NEW VENTURE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 8

A NEW VENTURE.

STOCK RATES AT OHAKUNE. SAVING TIME AND MONEY. (From Our Owu Correspondent.) OHAKUNE, thk day. A representative of one of the leading stock agent*, waited on the Ohakune Borough Council with tlhe purpoee of establishing tttock Bales in Ohakune. Ohakunc'e situation m ideal for euch a pin-pose as it is the moet central of the Wainiarino townships and being practically on tlie Main Trunk line, the holding of «ales here should proveabeneficial as it will lend itself to a decided economy in the use of railway rolling stock. At present the sales are held in Rneti'hi. whi<iTi is connected to the Main Trunk line With a branch line. The holding of unk* in Ohakune will save the farmers from the bat-k country a great deal of time as at present it takes some of them two days' droving to get their cattle to the Raetihi eale. The establishment ot stock sales together with the large stale of market gardening now carried on in the district marks' a further etep in the progress Ohakune is making, a« Inst year approximately 5000 tone of vegetables wan railed away. It is proposed to hold the firet eale on Tuesday of thie month.