WAIRARAPA FAT STOCK

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11706, 19 December 1923, Page 9

WAIRARAPA FAT STOCK

WHY EXPORTERS SHOULD ENCOURAGE “FREE MARKET." Every exporter in the frozen meat trade knows that in the early days the purchasing of fat stock was practically confined to companies owning freezing works. Every exporter knows that competition was restricted, that consignments to London by farmers were discouraged, that fat stock buyers chose their own time for drafting. That time was not always suitable to the farmer. Every exporter knows that these difficulties were solved by the fanners standing together to bUTid freezing works of their own, but open to all. This is the system which virtually made Canterbury THE fat stock market for New Zealand. Southland, Auckland, and. Hawke’s Bay also saw the advantages of a “free market.” The Wairarapa Frozen Meat Company proposes to establish a “free market’’ in the Wairarapa. Its Waingawa Freezing Works, recently acquired, are wide open to the large and the small exporter, the man with 10 sheep and the- man with 1000 and more. The Works, equipped with modem machinery, and substantially built of brick and concrete, have a capacity of 5000 sheep and lam'hs and 120 cattle a day. Support iby Wairarapa farmers will benefit not only the farmers individually, but the whole district by the better level of prices which must ensue. This is no theory, hut the logical result of a “free market,” especially demonstrated by the prices always ruling in Canterbury, where freezing works are operated in so many districts. Wairarapa exporters who have had to rail their purchases long distances may save this cost and wastage by sending their stocks.—Advt.