A MARKET FOR PORK.
The Daily Telegraph, In an arfclo on Government contracts, no'es the fact that during last year £169,713 was paid to foreign firms lor preserved and salt pork, and wants t) know why New Zealand, where pigs thrive as lustily as they do in Ohio and Michigan, did not got the benefit of these orders. The existing depression in the colony might, it Is pointed out, be at any rate partially relelved if the frossn and preserved meat tarde could be largely supplemented by a consistent demand for salt pork, and an opportunity should be sffjrded the New Zealand firms to tender for Government contracts, and a strong preference to bo given to them over American and foreigners for compressed meat, tro. The Telegraph points ont tbat no less than £220.000 was last year paid to foreign firms. Oan none of onr colonies BUpply this commodity and prevent the Imperial Government bom put'ing this lan.o sum of money into German and Yankee pockets i
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1352, 27 September 1886, Page 3
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167A MARKET FOR PORK. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1352, 27 September 1886, Page 3
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