EXPORT OF MEAT.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3290, 30 August 1871, Page 2

EXPORT OF MEAT.

TO THE KDITOK OF 'TIIR INDEPENDENT,

Sill, — It is a great pity in a new country like ours when we have one object in view that wo cannot all work together. I refer to our Export Meat Companies.

About three months ago a company was started in the Jlutt which, no doubt, whatovor arguments are brought to bear against it, is the only place where it could bo made payable, and no doubt tho company would have succeeded had not some gentlemen who are slightly pecuniarily interested in a certain boiling down establishment in Feathorston seen that if a preserve moat establishment was once successfully started in the Hutt the Fcathorflton boiling-down company would bo at a discount, so the gentlomen conspired together and instantly started an opposition company for the Wairarapa, holding out absurd arguments how far cheaper it would bo to cart tho beef and mutton forty miles than let it carry itself,

Now it has bean proved by all tho companies now ostublshed in Australia and, New Zealand that without wator or sl.eam carriage it cannot bo made payable. Interested people in Wairarapa cannot consistently contradict this proof. Also, in the Hutb, there would be a ready sale for tho refuso ns manuro, because generally the farms there aro on a small scale, but in tho Wairarapa a farmer counts his acres by hundreds, so when one piece ofland is exhausted ho ploughs up a fresh piece without troubling himself about manure, oven when it can be obtained from his own stockyard. Bones, hides, and other small items an all profitable when thoro is not a heavy carriage to bo paid.

At a meeting hold on the 18l.h hist, by the shareholders of the Wellington companj*, a report was read by the chnirman showing tho sum of money required to start and curry on the works in tho Upper Hutt for six months ; tho sum required exceeded tho amount of the shares already taken up, so the meeting requested tho report to bo published, and sent to tho different atockowners iv the surrounding districts, as an invitation for them to come forward and make one good company. The meeting then adjourned till Wednesday, tho 6th September, It is then hoped that tho graziers will show their sense and take up fcho remaining shares, and do away with all opposition, when the cad is for tho public good, by giving us a market price for our beef. — I am, &c., W.M.O.