Feilding Farmers' Freezing Company.

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13503, 13 September 1916, Page 7

Feilding Farmers' Freezing Company.

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.

REFERENCES TO THE MEAT TRUST.

The second annual meeting of the Oroua and west Coast Meat and Produce Company was held at Feilding yesterday, Mr Hugh Burrell, chairman of directors, presiding. The chairman, in moving the adaption of the report, said that the directors were disappointed that month after month a start could not be made at the works until April at killing cattle. A start was then made, however, and the balance-sheet disclosed a profit of over £IOOO, said this was a. matter of congratulation, and showed that the company was under capable management. The whole of the freezing chambers of the Dominion, he was

pleased to say, would be cleared by November, not like last year, when the first boats were going, away half empty. Every firm sent to the Government had a right to nominate a firm at Home, who could handle the stuff if it was not required by the Government. The American Meat Trust had at v the present moment a

golden opportunity, and this was de

serving of serious consideration, because owing to the present conditions many retail butchers at Home were forced off the market, and the American Meat Trust, who got their supplies from all over the world, took their places. So it was imperative for the New Zealand prjducer to be careful as to what firm he nominated when selling to the Government. The works at Aorangi were wanted, and he was. convinced that in the next couple of years would double their size. He also asserted that the freezing industry Avas the foremost industry in the Dominion., and he recommended any man who had money to spare to put it into the freezing industry. Meat in New Zealand could be purchased cheaper than anywhere else. That being so it should be possible for the meat to reach the Homo consumer at a low rate. But it did not, because after a certain point the Government lost control of it. He quoted figures to prove that we were supplying the world with meat at a cheaper rate than any other country. But he thought it deplorable that the low price at which it was sold to the Government was not also paid by the English consumer. Somebody was waxing fat over it. i Tne report and balance-sheet was adopted. The chairman moved that the title of the company be changed to the Feilding Farmers' Freezing Company. This was seconded by Mr Elliott. It was pointed out that the name '' West Coast" appearing in the title of the company was confusing, .persons assuming that it applied to the West Coast of the South Island. One shareholder thought that the name was too long, and suggested the deletion of the l word ?'Farmers' ", and call the company Fielding Freezing Company. This led to Mr Cobbe stating that the name of ' the company suggested by the chairman be adopted. Apt alliteration's artful aid, he said, was useful, and the sign of the three "F's" on the London market (should-become favourably known. The motion was agreed to. Mr S. M. Hobbs was appointed auditox.

Mr Cobbe moved that the charman 's honorarum for the past year be fixed at £loo.—This "was agreed to. A motion of thanks to the staff, especially to, the and secretary, was passed with acclamation.

The motion was carried unanimously. The election of officers resulted as follows:—Board of directors, Messrs Burrell, Short, and Bryce.

shoot, shoot in the mass. The first row falls ,and bites the dust; the second wave is quite disturbed already, and greatly surprised. '' How is this,'' they seem to think, "these Frenchmen still there?"

• Eh, yes. But it is no time for reflections. It is a question to burn cartridges quickly, as many as you possibly can. it is not necessary to 'aim. They are so many that you can't miss. Another wave comes again and another, and another. Our light artillery cut up their retreat now by shooting a barrier of shells at their i heels. Shells and shrapnel explode now in the mass. The thunder is on again. The beautiful battalions melt 'down. Men fall one on the other, mowed down like ripe wheat. Those who miraculously escape bullets and grape irons iiy like mad men, and spread the terror to the new waves coming.

THE BATTLEFIELD'S CROP OF

DEATH

On the battlefield death made a good crop, and rfc 13 full of corpses; of wounded that holler their sufferings in a harsh language; of men who lie flat on the soil, not able to make a pace backward or forward till night. How many killed on the battlefield? Six hundred? Fight hundred? You can't count or appreciate. But they are so many. So many You live again in the formidable thunder. You look about yourself. Some of your friends are missing. There are some dead ones; here some dying. Over there, wounded fighters are hobbling, helping each other toward the rear, where they will find a doctor's post. Red Cross men will •come at night with litters to look for the wounded v.ho cannot possibly walk. In two hours Germans will attack again probably, but the result will be the same. And Verdun will remain inviolable. To-morrow people in Paris or elsewhere, at breakfast, will read in 'the papers:— "Yesterday, alter a bombardment of great intensity that lasted four htfurs, the enemy pronounced a strong attack in mass against our, positions of so and so. The fire of our machine guns and musketry dispersed the enemy, who suffered sensible losses —"

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