THE MEAT TRADE.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17419, 1 April 1922, Page 8

THE MEAT TRADE.

1 MR MASHEY'S SUBSIDY PROPOSAL (Bj Ptmc ItJoaitiicn—CapjrrlfU.) (i.Oftrali&a *nd N.Z. C»bl» Association) LONDON, March 30. The British authorities give absolutely no encouragement to. Mr Massey's suggestion for a farthing subsidy on meat. : [ln his speech at Kawakawa on Tuesday Mr Massey, referring to the outlook for New Zealand produce said he believed that the time would come when preference to those within the Empire, would take practical shape. If Llcyd George would give one farthing/ a-pound preference- in shipping 1 he would ask tKe New Zealand' Government fbr another farthing and make it one halfpenny. They had strong <»mpetitors, and it. was their duty to see-that they produced the best quality etery tiuae.j 1

SCiiENCE IN THE OFFICE. . i •I • ; ;•.. t • « (FSOH om OWN OOESBSPONDBNT.) February 17. Mr Gordon Selfridge, epeakingat the Business Efficiency Exhibition* said: — ; <"i: cMae,to England to learn rather I thaat© tekch, and I have been learn- ' 1 ing every day Binoe. England is pro'giessive aid Jteen in business. I want to see- in Jjbndon the best ofail the arts and." the business man ready to -ficcept'the; newest ideas. The toois of the'. counting-house, the tools of doing ' business, si® those things which mwhnniftnlly help the man of business to do thinjgs better, Just as the micro--1 Bttope or tbo retort and. the telescope '. :aTu the tools which aid the scientist ■to do mechanically that which his brain wishes 10 do. Wihy shouldn't the most efficient of our business men be most : to;, accept the newest ideas and do everything which would' make the y<mng' man' from ' the outermost parts -of the world beg- for the privilege of ooiiung here to learn hoW to do things better, just as the old merchants of , ° tfavßanseatic League. those wonderful ' ! oM • maktdrs of .trade,; five hundred 'yews ago used to eend their sons to to kirn tho last: word of pronciency and training and doing busi- • ata.'- I would like to see the young nveh from the uttermost parts of the • " world oome to this city to get the , finest post-graduate cotirse. in the soitince of doing, business.-' I applaud as starongty-as'l can-that committee of lrasinfesa men who conceived and who -'crtated this very interesting display of ' effiaenoy tools. giving one the privilege of s&iiig very many things in a oomtoaratively ehort time. I hope this will ' 'be but one of an; annual seneis of affairs 'of this kind, wnicji shall becoae a recognisedl of eveify' kind -of tiiois ana devioes, which will make this'science to 'which we belonct, 'the scienoe of business, more perfect."

customs Revenue. ' '' OBBZSTCHUBOa BSCSIPTS. ; Fccr tha March quarter of 1923 tfco ■ net ' Customs duties collected et Christohurch •were less by £102,770 as ' compared with the oorrejpocding quarter of 1921; beer duty ahowtid «»' incoeaee of £9633 «s compared .wjth £h» Maroh quarter, 1921.' The detailed figures »re:— March ' l&rch . Quarter, Quarter,. "■' ' . 1902.' 1921. ' Ket Ooetoais ' £102,761 11 7 £265,731 17 0 3eer duty ' i23i632 14 1 £ll,OlO 17 9 1 For the mteth of March, 1922, net Customs xeceiste' decreased £BBB2, asdr beer duty ,inoiMMd by. £2038, eo compared. with March, ,'1921. ,Tli» details are:— March, 1923 l Much, 1921. 'tfet CtißtaooS 2 6 £68,147 17 0 ' Boer duty M £8,917 6 8 £1,909 10 3

' . ■ MARKETING EOOa ; ■ . -■ » ' ' . \ . • A mtko&u oojnmiesiaßof four has been appointed wiwia. ti# executive of th» N«w : busd SSraltey iicociktion, in accord&nce ' Nrtth » Mokw carried at the recent enxaui conference. The commission is to oogujdor epeciaUy the ,question' of the marketv. fig ©f egga. li' Wts etatsd at'Palmerstoa ' fee other dey that it •ajaa ' expected there yeoM be » l*rS« tredo during the • next (MMtV. flash, months. The prospects - .efomeew trad» wereparticnlaiJy .promising. .lMt year could not cops with the - 'd»o?m?sd ,of oTOrstao buyers foe .eggs., New frifrft r* tod- 'AwiaJiftV flash tides w»rethe ; qufci times in Bigland and America.. .Pal-. Zw •WifriMl being centrally situated, 1 •wogj&t b»> tk«vvenue of a .conference during Hi* winter (show. It was expected that fum | ftß9B®MMcta irould thflffl bo made.