PRODUCERS’ SHIPPING CO.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 355, 15 February 1917, Page 6

PRODUCERS’ SHIPPING CO.

DISCUSSED BY FARMERS’ UNION.

At a meeting of the Hawke’s Bay branch of the *\ew Zealand Farmers’ I nion held in Hastings yesterday the question of forming a Producers’ Shipping Company with a capital <. f £5,000,000 was discussed on a letter from the Marlborough branch stating that it had passed a resolution affirming the desirability of forming sucn a company. It was suggested 'by tne writer tiiat hir James uilson, pomuiion rresicient of the f armers Union, should be asked to call a meeting in eilmgton, and that the meeting should be attended by a aeiegaie irom each district. Tne president, Mr 11, M. Campbed, said tnat ms sympathy used to be with the shipping companies, but tne increase m tneir expenditure sine tne beginning of the war did not represent anything approaching tne amount by which they* had increased the freight lates, representing something like £1,500,000. He thought it rather a pity that the proposal had been i rl VIC-t TV AW tIPPfIPQP f.I>PV Wl‘P ith i o t at t oil tell £>• n l o 1 mid a better wav. ne thought, would be for the. whole of the owners -A the 21 million sheep and tne two holt 1 would mean a very small payment . tile ti at ar the shipping would be cuiili<dled b.y 1 n (Hr h ti was no doubt mat the Meat Trust had secured more or less of a footg k la i a trood and bad in connection wish me Trnst in South .America tanners b t fe I ° T 1 t 1 roffiner here. It would tail prmei--Itl I o I let tl r e I o 1 I l t 1 1 1 l a he i o 1 to t i j o a delegare as requested. Alter some discussion, Mr. G. rJ>i as 1 P t 1