MESSRS NELSON BROS.' CIRCULAR.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4946, 23 June 1887, Page 3

MESSRS NELSON BROS.' CIRCULAR.

[to the editor.] Sir, —Messrs Nelson Bros, circular, as a business matter, is forcibly put before the sheepfarmers of this district, and as an advertisement, stands upon its own basis. I now address myself to your leader in yesterday's issue. Your commendation of the exertions of this firm is shared in by all settlers here, but your conclusions are the reverse of the freetrado principles you have hitherto enunciated. Without grudging Messrs Nelson Bros, the sheep promised to them, there cannot be a doubt that if another freezing company were started it would find room and sufficient and with works that would from improved machinery and a very much less capital ho sure to succeed : thus preventing a monopoly that is not good for any country. Another view you take requires few words to show its fallacy, that is, that unless all the sheepfarmers continue loyally to support the new Colonial Shipping Company its proprietors will withdraw from the trade on the completion of the contract. Why Sir, where would they turn their ships? Is it not patent that the more freezing-shirts we can induce to call at our ports the less chance there will be of any company having a monopoly, tho now company would have its chance in competition with any other and a strong claim admitted still, it is not for our benefit that all freezing and all shipping should be in the hands of any one company. The new Colonial Company might otherwise have the opportunity of putting on the inevitable '' yoke you write about. It is well known that other Homo capitalists were willing to enter the field by sending large cargo steamers and sailers, fitted with the best machinery, before the Colonial Union Company was heard of, but they could not get support owing to existing freezing works being bound to existing lines ; it is a further fact that Messrs Tyser and Co. wrote to a gentleman hero asking what number of frozen sheep and bales of wool would bo guaranteed were they to start a competing line; this was previous to Mr Dobsou's leaving Napier on Messrs Nelson's mission; j these facts sufficiently prove that there was little ground for fearing a continued monopoly. All will be proud to sec Messrs Nelson Bros, continued success, but all wish more generally to share in that success. From Chi.stchurch one gentleman informed the writertliat hehadsent home 10,000 sheep last season, and the whole of the charges from the time he sent the sheep from the Belfast works, Canterbury, till he received net proceeds amounted to.;,one-sixteenth less than 2Jd per pound, and these sheep were sent by the Shaw Savill lino. There are other copies of accounts here showing lower rates than Messrs Nelson's. But in those sales there is a much different plan of disposal in tho Home market. The producer can get his bills of lading when the sheep are shipped ; draws on them through his own bank: consigns to his own, the bank's, or the freezing company's agent; the sheep are landed and stored, in St. Katharine's Dock refrigerated meat stores: the best salcmen are employed and the best results have followed to the Canterbury and Otago shippers, who have always had bettor prices than ours. Relative to the freight for wool from this port by the Colonial Union Company, you have omitted all mention in your article. It can bo readily shown that it can be carried from hero Home largely, under what we must assume from Mr Dobson's advertisement ho has arranged with that company to cany for, that is, a rate no lower than what was paid last season. In conclusion, by the lever of a new frozen meat company being promptly supported, we should with two, or three years at most, soo our consolidated frozen meat rate down to two-ponce per pound, and at that leave a good profit to be divided among shareholders. I enclose my name and address, which you may give to any party who wishes to assist in tho scheme, so that as early as possible a prospectus of the new meat freezing company, now set on foot, maybe issued.—l am, &c, Producer and Exporter. Note.—l am informed that the Belfast Canterbury Freezing Company returned 12 per cent, to shareholders, and 8 per cent, to non-shareholders who sent sheep to their works. Napier, 23rd June, ISS7.

. Eakins & Co., Sole Agents for Rubini & Co., New York, and Fleming and Co., London. Just received, 2 cases of ' Fleming's Special Soft Soap for harness, &c, as used in H.M. Cavalry. See that the name "Fleming & Co., London," is on the label of each tin. Sold in lib tins. Also 4 cases of Rubini's Lime Juico and Glycerine, and 2 cases of Rubini's Bay Rum. Storekeepers will find it advantageous to deal with us for all kinds of sundries. Homeopathic Medicines, &c, always in stock. Eakins & Co., Manufacturing Chemists, Veterinary Surgeons, and Chemical and Drug Importers, Tenny-son-street, Napier.

It may interest flockowners to know that Messrs Eakins and Co. are now preparing an Emulsion of Eucalyptus Oil, Turpentine, Quassia, and Camphor for dosing sheep suffering from intestinal worm. The preparation is without doubt of far greater value than Turps and Oil, and the cost is also moderate (10s per gallon) and the mixture is given in one ounce doses with syringe, as Turps and Oil. Prepared by Eakins and Co., Manufacturing Chemists, Tennyson-street, Napier.