MASTERTON SALE YARDS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 557, 12 July 1909, Page 8

MASTERTON SALE YARDS.

REMOVAL TO SOLWAV OPPOSED.

i At a'meeting of.the MastertonA. arid'P. Association's.genoral;comroittee on ;Saturday last the'question as to whether the saleyards for Masterton ; Avaro to' bo removed 'to the vicinity of Solway' show grounds, came! up.,;.' Mr. "J..■ C. M'Killop..said ho;.';hoped, tho proposed;, idea would not' bo'.cohsuinmated. Speaking' as a farmer: living : on the' north side of Masterton, ,he said.that he-.and his end of the district wore opposed to the' saleyards being removed to'Solway.'.. ? : ' • :Mr. A.■; J. Percy, said 'that ho, too, was strongly opposed,to the removal of the sale-' yards;to near Solway.: He .could tell the meeting that already a- petition was in circulation among farmers to protest: against the proposal. ....•:•■',...'•'■:."■.'. ■•'.■'"'■•'.' "The ..chairman (Mr.. D. M'Gregoiy jun.), stated: that, so. far. as; the'.association was concerned, it was not itself concerned in the matter at all..;'ThoV-association had .set up a .committee to interview/the auctioneers to ascertain their/ intentions for the -'.purpose, only of knowing where it- stood in tho matter of approaching the, Railway Department for a' siding near Solway. ;,;;;,. '■'.■!',;'■'■'!£■ ,',:', ;. 'Jlr/. O. C. .CiiDper,-speaking 1 after .tho'rmeet-'' inghad formally closed, took advant'ago of the occasion to point out that' the auctioneers hatl,'' after' full .consideration, .of;,thev whole matter,- decided that the site' near{Solway was, in most respects, the best for .their: purposes. '; The idea, washier all the auctioneering firms to hold their sales, on, the' one • day, which arrangement , : would be... to ago of their clients. The srte.merrtioned.was out of the borough, near tho town, and near the railway.. ,The;,objection'to'.-yards\at: the nofthond of'the, tho.railway.■.:'. Hdvveref,'■'. ! he,' l ahd vthe s, ether auctioneers had ;an open mind on the ''matteri''..>■-.!•/; V: t:v , : ''::;". : \-'rM : /-ii'\ ■>;':■;: : rvi.;^.M' r ' Several '.members';,pointed.o'n.t that ;though the: association had rib direct interest in'< the removal of the':sa]eyards' to Splivay,-. it Btood ,to.'benefit.;yery,:gr^tly'by. : the'chanKO.: . ,'■ No resolution' on tho -/subject"was! carried. ■;