THE SALEYARDS QUESTION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXI, Issue 8832, 12 July 1905, Page 4

THE SALEYARDS QUESTION.

To the Editor. Sir,—'One more word to "Jeff," who apparently does not relish coming to close quarters. If I have shewn that the proposed saleyards have not a reasonable chance of paying dividends to shareholders, there is no necessity to throw (iold water on the project (verb sap'.). Generalities are little value; deal please in a business-like way with a business proposal. If fat stock raisers were of "Jeff's" opinion, the North Road Yards with their "real facilities" and with the Eveline Works so close at hand "would during the past year have had a real good time. Had they "Jeff"? This should surely appeal to* you. There is no use of your telling us thai "by far the greater proportion of the fat stock is put through the saleyards in Canterbury." You either cannot know the magnitude of that business (which I am loth to think) or have not fully considered what your statement- means. When you speak of the 10,000 sheep in one sale at the Junction Yards (those yards "stuck upon a hill a mile away from anv railway siding") I am tempted to quote your own proverb about that one swallow. Please shew where my whole year's estimate is wrong. However, the matter in a nutshell is this, if the farmers of this district conclude that I am even approximately right- they will "ca' canny," but if "Jeff" lias convinced them that there is nothing in my warning, then they will rusli for shares in the new yards, but "I hae ma doots.' I know I will be excused if my classic quotations are not quite corect, as my understanding of foreign tongues is a little imperfect.—l am, etc., VERB. SAP.