MOA DISTRICT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 10018, 1 June 1894, Page 2

MOA DISTRICT.

[PROM OTJB OWN CORRESPONDENT.] May 31. — Your Inglewood correspondent will doubtless have sent you an account of the meeting held in the Town Hall there last Saturday. It was called to discuss the question of co-operation in the ' dairy industry, and from what I can hear it seems to have ended without anything definite being done. However it appears to have stirred people up a bit, and all sorts of rumours are flying about, from which I gather that an effort will be made to establish a co-operative factory on the Junction Road, east of Inglewood. There are a large number of settlers down that way — far more than the uninitiated would believe— for proof of which" statement let the unbeliever take his stand on the Kurapete bridge at the edge of tho township, and take note of the number of conveyances which run in from the country on a fine Saturday. Messrs Eeynolds & Co. appear to find their factories in this neighborhood such a success that I hear they contemplate establishing a branch on the Tariki Eoad. Mr Tuck, the energetic and active manager of their Kaimate Road branch, showed me a list of those who had promised to supply, and there seems every prospect of one being erected somewhere near the school, if satisfactory terms can be arranged. With all deference to Messrs Reynolds and their worthy lieutenant, Mr Tuck, and without wishing any of them any harm, I confess it seems a pity to me that our settlers should so persistently stand in their own light and prefer to send money out of the district, when by cooperation they might keep tbe whole of it in the place — and most of it in their own pockets. In the , course of a conversation I had the other day with the Chairman of the Cardiff Cooperative Factory, he said that by sending milk to ' a factory owne.d by private individuals, the suppliers lose nearly Id per gallon as compared with sending to a factory worked on the lines of the Cardiff. But farmers are slow to see this, and besides this there is always a difficulty in fixing on a site for a Cooperative place which will suit all parties. Each man, figuratively speaking, wants it in his own back yard, and as this is a manifest impossibility, the whole project collapses in nine cases ' out of ten for want of unanimity and a little mutual abnegation of sejf. I was shown two fine specimens of root crops at the Moa Farmers' Union to-day, ■t carrot which measured 20 inches long and girthed 11 inches at the top, weight 21b 30z., and a parsnip 15 inches long, girth 12 inches, weight lib Uozs. These were grown by Mr King, of Inglewood, from seed of his own saving, and I was told were only a fair sample of the whole crop.