The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Thursday, July 4, 1889.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 320, 4 July 1889, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Thursday, July 4, 1889.

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's.

CO-OPERATION AMONG FARMERS. It has now been arranged that the meeting in connection with the proposed Farmers’ Co-operative Association shall take place on Monday evening next; “weather permitting,” the advertisement puts it, but that is probably intended as a quiet joke, for in this district we do not often get weather so bad as to deter men from meeting when there is anything important to consider. Our contemporary the other evening maintained that the principal source of wealth to which the settlers of this district have now to look is the frozen meat trade. We do not agree with any such view, and we should be sorry so allow people to run away with the idea that because a great amount of good is to be derived from the frozen meat trade it should have the undivided attention of settlers. That it will be a great gain to the place every one must acknowledge, and we are glad to congratulate the promoters upon the business-like and energetic way the establishment of the industry is being pushed on. In regard to the petroleum industry our faith is unshaken, and there is no need for us to again explain why matters are in such a backward state, beyond an observation that our old friend Mr Weaver is Mr Weaver still and is likely to be so until from this life of toil and care he disappears into ethereal space, He is a problem that cannot be solved—the oil may one day be a known quantity. Leaving out of consideration the export of wool and frozen meat, a vast source of wealth still remains if it can only be developed with the advantage that might reasonably be expected. We allude to the small farming industry, and it is, we assume, mainly the develop, ment of that which will occupy the attention of the Co-operative Association. There is not the same amount Wk distribution in connection with -».ne frozen me»t trade as there is whena’.„,ge and profitable output is being made by the farmers on a small scale, and if the small farmers are in a prosperous condition it amounts to a certainty that the farmers on a larger scale will also be prosperous. And there is the problem for bc»h to solve—why does the district have to import much produce which might well be grown in the place ? lie know, too, that in the case of such small items as butter and eggs, the price at times fluctuates in a most remarkable way, the explanation being that many country people do not judge the market well, or bring a large quantity in at one time, and then pefer to accept anything to be got rather than take the produce back Into the country again, The result is that people who can ill afford It are made to suffer a loss, shopkeepers gain no benefit, and the purchasers would just as soon have a fair and steady market. A short time ago large quantities of were being imported, and yet before us as those Robb, of Patr.tahi, and HHBMvs. it is useless to say that a quality cannot be Indeed we have so isolated from ; should be no i wit * l us in ' \ to .

are now and thoujrtheir efforts are in no way antagonistic to the frozen meat trade, we look upon the encouragement of small settlers as of great importance, for they are one of the most certain foundations of the prosperity of any district. We hope to see a large attendance at the meeting on Monday evening, that the result will be that steps' win be promptly taken to acbieVethe end in view.