A CO-OPERATIVE FREEZING WORKS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 477, 8 April 1909, Page 5

A CO-OPERATIVE FREEZING WORKS.

iJ&ETING AT WOODVILLE. ; ■■ A representative- meeting- of sheepfarmers, from thejßush Districts, :Palmerston, Feild'- ! ing, was : held at Woodville yesterday afternoon (says a Press Association" messageJafrom Woodyiile), for the purpose* of forming a Co-operative Freezing Company.' Fourteeneilelegates were present, and Mri' : Ji C. Coopmu-occupied the chair. • ■ v ■■:< The delegates reported the'result of meet-' ings held-Kih their respective districts,; , the sum total of which was'in favour of forming a Co-operative Freezing Company. The meeting affirmed.! the-desirability of company, ag| discussed at length Bite of the Tjoyks-should be. No finality as;to this was arrowed at, but it was decided'tract it be a quesjiprffor the shareholders to dicide The comp^ry*.was then formally inaugurated, the nominal capital to be one hundred thousand pounds, in shares of five potads each. A,. provisional board was appointed, consisting of' Messrs. J. C. Cooper ana-fliomax (Pahiatua),,l|urnmer and Balsillie, (Palmerston North), -Brookes and M'lln>y;p.''eilding), Groves, M'Tvenzie, Brow.n, and (Waitahora), Jand a member frornVZ/Pongaroa. Mr.' Ooopfer was appointed'* chairman of directors/ ''and Mr. Milne '',(M£sf ertonj secretary. t'j . .■',i"u''Vi"