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to the Company or disposing of the same to or through the Company, shall at all times have preference over non-shareholder suppliers as regards killing and stoiage space at the Company’s works. (DISTRIBUTION OP SURPLUS PROFITS. Provision is made in the articles ioi the distribution of ' ‘ Surplus Annual Profits” among share-holder-suppliers holding “A” Preference Shares to an amount sufficient to qualify, such distribution to be on account of stock frozen on behalf of the shareholder. STOCK STATISTICS. Latest statistics show that the

nine Northern Comities possess nearly 000,000 sheep, and that there has been an increase during the lilst fi ve years of nearly 200,000 sheep in the six Northern Counties. Every local farmer (realises the still further vast increase the district is capable of as the bush and fern country become cleared. Cattle returns show nearly 250,000 head in the North Auckland Peninsula, of which 171,000 are in the six Northern Counties. CO-OPERATIVE FREEZING. It has long been realised that the establishment of Co-operative Freezing Works is essential to the progress and prosperity of the North. Success in every case has attended the establishment of Butter Factories in the North, and similar co-operative institutions to deal with the freezing of local fat stock must become remunerative to the shareholdersuppliers and advance this rap-idly-growing district. FAT STOCK. When the farmers of this district possess their own works for freezing their stock as it matures, then the greater portion of this stock, which is now being sent out of the district as store stock, would be fattened and frozen in

MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH AUCKLAND FREEZING COMPANY. LIMITED

I. The name of the' Company is ‘ ‘ The North Auckland Freezing Company, Limited. ’ ’ 11. The objects for which the Company is established are:* 1. To start and carry on the business of—(a) Meat, fish, poultry, and game freezing and preserving by any process in all its branches. (b) Cold storage proprietors. (c) Wholesale carcase, and retail butchers and vendors of meat. (d) Dealers in every kind of products, raw or manufactured, of slaughtered stock. (e) Manufacturers of every kind of by-products of slaughtered stock into marketable commodities, whether in combination with other substances or otherwise. (f) Manufacturers of every kind of requisite for packing the manufactured produce of the Company, or any goods or articles in which the Company may deal. (g) Contract shearers, fellmongers, tanners, and wool-scourers. (h) Dealers in live and dead stock, fish, poultry and game. (i) Wool-buyers, dealers, and insurance agents. (j) Ship-owners, builders of ships, lighters, tugs, charterers, and carriers by land or water of every kind of merchandise or goods or passengers.