NELSON'S NEW: INDUSTRY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 733, 4 February 1910, Page 8

NELSON'S NEW : INDUSTRY.

• A PROGRESSIVE COJtPANY. . Two -years ago kelson, as fclio land ' oLorbhhids/niops, /aid'* "barley, sot out .to ■havefafmeat-frcezing'nvorks of'its own. . Tim-secretary of -the Nelson Freez-. vMv. W. S. Hampson, has been- spendinij/a- few, dnysdn-- the city on li is .way'; homo. Ifrom ; tlie ; Ghrist'cKurch Meat Conference; and. when ."seen yesterjday.'i morning spoke niost; optimistically of the prospects of Nelson's.new.industry., When tlie'company started operations I.therG),were who declared' that .'sheep' r .'coiild 'fatterie'd .ln-'Nelsoh; and ; ;that than 1 7000:.carcasses' at the.; outside , be • got'away in the first/season;; \ The ;most hopeful of .those: interested-in ; the'concern did not expect an output,-of more than. 20,000 carcasses .at "the 1 outside, and were . very pleasantly.- surprised ; v when' the tally ran at' over-22,000. -This year' anything from 30,000 to 35,000 sheep -will" be put through/ The' ; qu'ality-of. the ;outputr ; llr. :Eampson states, ; is > also '• exceeding, the general anticipation/ 'The - prices obtained for the different shipments'-have run consistently .within ;id: ; of those obtained for the best Canterbury. ' The : shipment ! dispatched by the ivaramea about a fortnight ago has already; been/soldi- at' a satisfactory figure, ;tw6'' offers:; being for' it • almost as' soon'as-it „ was' on 'the waterl

; . : ''Eyerybodyi. : nsed to - tell us," Mr/ Hampson stated, "that we could never turn voutvsheep' inrNelson- in any quantity suitable for freezing, j Not- only• are we doing frW.;3jondon state.'that we. Home;just what' is l , waited *in iweigh't'i; condition—but we-are;now-beginiiing'to v.havecompeti.tion for our! shipments at ! this early 6tage in the day.' There is now every probability. that bB; able.>: to ~ maintain thr6ugh- : theVseasori regular monthly/shipments* of - 5000/ carcasses.;'' v • •