The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la Verite. Wednesday, September 5, 1883. CULPABLE APATHY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 234, 5 September 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la Verite. Wednesday, September 5, 1883. CULPABLE APATHY.

In a recent issue the Wanganui Herald •deprecates the indifference manifested 3>y the settlers on such vital questions a' the successful promotion of the' meat freezing industry. 6ur contemporary points out with considerable force and reason that m Wanganni, the very centre of, the? raw 'material supply, the community is asleep, after a vain and puny attempt to form a company of its own. It is rather depressing to think that our settlers have sp; little enterprise or patriotism that they cannot combine for an object which so distinctly holds out a reward, eq,ual tb the expenditure of a capital -well' within their reach", Mr B6wßpN> alluded to the lack of enterprise shown by a certain class with regar-d . to/1 ;xhe Dairy Factory. The v Herald points out that that venture is due to the spirit and energy of a few Boiall farmers, who pushed, the thinf , and with the assistance of the trading class, have been able to make a start. ! But it is hard work to set anything! agoing, so dead is enterprise among those who hare the sinews of war. Of course it is very gratifying to find those companies being formed m any part of [the cojony, though the nearer to our doors the more gratifying it must be. Wellington companies will largely draw their supplies of stock from these districts, and the tendency at present being shown to invest money m the meatpreservjng- trade must, at no very distant period, produce the mosf beneficial effect on the financial stability of settlers gfonerally.. It has been amply proved" that when an industry shows signs of yielding a profitable raturn, there is plenty of money m the colony ready to develop it. The capitalist has hitherto been disposed to confine his,intentioDß almost exclusively to real property j but he has found that the security even here depends on what the land will yield, and hejis disposed accoidingly to distribute hisifavorp m other directions. Our contemporary thus concludes : — ln j Wanganui,,, v^e suppose nothing: is left to us now but lip, . wait ji and-' it may be that at some future time the place will regain confidence to enable it to establish industries connected with its staple productions on its .own, account. We suppose Palmers ton must perforce follow suit, and aleo watt. It dofs not Beem possible to instil into the minds of the public of Manawatu the. slightest enthusiasm m matters appertaining to or connected with local industries. Mr Monrad has demonstrated this truism beyoad doubt. And so we suppose we must Btill w»it, and let other less favoured districts leave us behind m the race.