ST COAST FREEZING WORKS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2480, 20 April 1909, Page 6

ST COAST FREEZING WORKS.

[To The Editor.] r,r—Some.weeks ago a letter ap•ed in' tlie ■ ‘Times’’ re East Coast •■zing - Works, in which tlio writer pared price, etc., in Tologa and Toaru in which he favored Tologa. since having the opportunity of ,ing both those places, and being dis{rested in .cither of them, I would I like to express my opinion on the i Tologa Bay, being the first p'ace jsited, 1 was . more than surprised jjho surrounding country to this ris* jtownship. Out of about 8000 acres jst-class flat land, which I had heard nd fully expected to sec in crop, I Id nothing but rushes and weeds ping," instead of whioh.it should bo ling off about 30 fat lambs per acre |•» supporting an ; up-to-date butter pry as well. On'enquiries made 1 Id :that the district at the present \ is putting through about 75,000 [p besides large mobs of cattle ligh ’the' two Gisborne: works. And ts all the advantages required for ing and butter making. It has a tdid river, on the bank of which a ■r factory could bo built. All its lies could then bo convoyed by ivi but I would not recommend tffe , ing of freezing works on the river, ji believe the bar at times gets bad |'l was told by old residents of tlio e that at practically very little cost I’s Cove, which _f had not time to l coult? be made workable at all E> and weather, it being -naturally tercel from all weather, pxt day X found myself in Toko mum [not with the same favorable impres!i of the place as I had of Tologa on I coining into it, and I left with less, pmaru, in my opinion, has far more fey and go in it than Tologa, but | a jealousy towards Tologa, and is the reason in trying to get works fieir port. All I could see and find favorably in the night I spent there the number of sheep they estimated Sng through, not so many as what Imafu had itself, but what they cxpd north of that township. And if Lviantity of fat stock mentioned to jit Tologa and Tokomaru is correct, jis sufficient to run two small works, las to Tokomaru, before they can ! freezing the harbor must be looked hd;to. make it workable I was infed they proposed spending about. pOO. Now, supposing, when this knt. is sunk and the. work is not si"completed—-which is the usual Kt New Zealand.in work Ais kind—it will mean loro money to complete by the time an additr thereabouts, is raised works it will make, the their stock exceedingly n the other hand, tvh.ch

will not be handicapped with any shipping charges, will be freezing for half tho cost as that of Tokomaru. Therefore should she desire to compete, slio can send her buyers to Tokomaru district and pay there higher prices for their stock than what they can get at their own works. And before long, if I am correct, the stock would soon be finding its way down to the Tologa works. __ In making a long story short, ol the two sites, give up tho idea of Tokomaru, build an up-to-date works at Tologa. The £40,000 proposed to bo spent in tlie sea could be put into a tram line from Tologa up the Hikiwai Valley ir-to the hack-blocks of Tokomaru, which would bring the settlers nearer to a works than even if they had them at Tokomaru. And your money would be invested in on of the best paying concerns in the Dominion.—l am, etc. “ONLOOKER.”