THE PORK INDUSTRY.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume I, Issue 51, 18 September 1893, Page 2

THE PORK INDUSTRY.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I was in Wellington last week, and availed myself of the offer made me in Mr Ritchie s letter, which was published in your columns—to glance at the correspondence in reference to Mr Veoht and the Inter-Marine Supply Company. I had also some conversation with Mr Vecht and with Mr Stockvis, the Financial Manager, and Mr Boyden, the Engineer. Mr Vecht went for me very good humoredly, I must say in regard to the inquiries that we Woodville people had been making about him. He thought, however, on the whole the Woodville movement had done a great deal of good by bringing the whole matter prominently before the public. Mr Vecht seemed to me to have read everything that had been written or spoken on the subject. He was particularly pleased and struck with the paper by Mr Siddeils, of OrmondviHe, which appeared in the Bush Advocate and the Woodville Examiner. He maintained that we w'ere wrong in doubting his figures in regard to the number of pigs a dairy farmer could raise and fatten with the assistance of his skim milk. No doubt his figures were accurate in regard to the circumstances of Denmark, hut then their circumstances are widely different from ours. When 1 met these gentlemen they were all three on their way South to take stops towards starting the industry in Christchurch, it appears there is an immediate prospect of a better supply in Canterbury than in the North Island. Operations, however, it is expected, will soon be commenced also at Wellington and Waitara. All that is wanted is an extra supply of pigs. There appears to be no reasonable doubt whatever now as to funds being available for the erection of factories on any scale the supply of pigs will warrant. I think there is every prospect of our seeing in a few years time the mess pork industry established on as large a scale in this eountry as the frozen mutton industry is now. The four capitalists in the company are Messrs K. S. Stockvis. senr., K. b. Stockvis, junr., of Rotterdam, .1. V. 1). Bergh, of Mincing Lane, London, and B. B. Voss, of 7b, Weston-street, Bermondsey. London. Mr Stockvis, who is now r in New Zealand, writes as follows to the Minister of Agriculture: “ i am enabled, as financial agent for the Company, to do all my business on strictly cash lines, as the finances at our disposal are not limited by the amount company’s capital, but are and will be provided by the gentleman named above, as, and when the developement of the business may require it, my father having selected, with my full consent, New Zealand as the field for my business career. I trust that I may have, as I shall try to deserve, the good will and support of the (iovernment of this country.” This seems to put the question of the capital available in a very satisfactory light.—l am, Ac., W. W. Carlilk. j BRUCE ON BURNS AND REESE ON BRUCE. (To the Editor.) Sir, —I have read Mr Reese’s letter ( Bruce on Burns) several times to try and find out what he really means, but 1 have come to the conclusion that the logic is very bad. It is very much after the styh of a horse chestnut being a chestnut horse. Mr Reese contends that because Mr Bruce used the words second-class he meant to imply Burns was a second-class poet. I certainly did not understand or take it in that light when I heard Mr Bruce lecturing. Take for instance a horse show, class 1 thoroughbreds, class ‘2 draughts. I don’t think any of your readers will argue that the horse that takes first prize in class 2 is inferior to the one that takes first prize in class 1. Why, ; sir. he is as much superior for heavy work to the thoroughbred as the thoroughbred is io the draught for fieefcness of foot; in ( fact they are both first-rate horses of a different class, and \ contend it is quite ! possible to have two poets equal and yet of ' a different class. Mr Reese asks some • questions, but I should like to know what 1 statements he wants verified, also what it ( is that wants extenuation. —1 am, Ac., Not a Membbr of Burns* Club.