MORE FREEZING WORKS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14706, 5 June 1920, Page 1

MORE FREEZING WORKS.

To the Editor. Sir,;—l *ee an advertisement ill the columns of your widely circulated paper inviting all tbose interested in tlio establishment of a iivozmg works ill .South Cantgrbtirv to ;ttteud a nieetin<r in Gienavy on Monday. 7th. and I say. without hesitation, that it is a stop in the right direction: not alone from a farmer's standpoint, but also from the point of the business people of the Waimate and Onmaru districts. ,Vnv of our average-sized Trwzing*works employs upwards of 300 bands tor night or nine months of the war, and their v/age-s run into several thousand pounds. All that money spent, hii local' townships will Eive a great filip to trades of everv description, but the farmer has been the prime sufferer for the last three or four years. The owners of the local freezing- works have=hown no sympathy with the producer. Therefore I hope that the fannor-3 will show strength- and determination hi l-uildirisr works of their ova that will he worked purelv on co-operative- lines, and that everv "shareholder will get a l-nupre deal. "T would specially Ann the attention of tli* former® ot Aoriti (Hugo. V"l:o are entirelv in Ibe baud* of a company wbo-e aims and o'-iorvs are to make as much nrnfit fnr shareholders es pp«'"Me:. Out of revenue tl-.cr ifilded ,n0 nor cent to the!'sliare capital and paid :■ dividend of sonn-ihins like in wr rent. Surely if jc time that the farmer came to realise that snch works as those are not run in his best interest.—T am, etc.^