DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 3

DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

» THE MEAT RINGS AT HOME. v AN INTERVIEW. ( '' ' llij Tclesraph-Spcclal OorresDonaenl.t .■ .-- ■■■'' ' ■■■■■■■ Wanijanui,' Dkember-23. A special meeting of- tho Hospital Boa id has approved plnns ior the Taihape Hospital; and: ■ has decided to call tenders for l tliobuilding, at 1, a cost of JE2OOO. The board has also decidod: :J to add!,'a newinfectious. diseasef'AvardVlb',tll9j;jV, Wanganui Hospital, at a cost of •«C 700.. Tlio ;Waugauui Bowling Club wilt be ropre-<: v rented by; tlirco rinks ut the tournament, which is to be held m Wellington'" next: month*- aud r bt. John's Club will bo represented by one: .-,; ; A party from-tlio Wellington-Officers'-Tram--..-J] ! ing. Corps- goes . intd"camp : 'to-mori'ow,> a', ftw,'y?, I miles Up the Wanganui ltiver. > -As/-the - outcome of -, a recent inquiry into /! charges allogcd : against certain railway; offioials: i-J eiigoged- on tlio: Wanganui .Whart,. it is stated. that three officers have > resigned. ; The ltoads Department has finished- tho-.workt".-! of strengthening the • Wanganui town bridge, ;'> which is now opened for regular trafffce. There will be another interruption after tlio holidays, v however, ■when .the Borough Council staff' will mako -a start' with tho .rcdecking. v /".A point of ; some; interest-has been raised by'--'; a member of the' Borough Council who considers -:that no' verandah' should'bo'; added: to' any.-: fe; building unless it is ,of :such a nature, as will' facilitate ■ fire, brigado work" in- case of :iire.HeVf-f-j points out that some/vorandahs, ,thfl roofs.,of;?';whiplr are- rounded, are -boiing: attached to: high ,d buildings, . and consider? that all verandahs should be fairly flat on top, to allow of ladders being planted on them. ' - - , , Ono hundred, and • thirty ■ entries have been if received for the . Wanganui: lfciflo Association's: -: North-Island - Championshin uieoliu^,--opening. ■ on Boxing Day, all district's bring well represented. , r lbis is a record ■ entry, for? this, assocW-'!-lion's meetings. -' .■■■■• ■ /. Mr. G. L. lL: Cunningham; formerly managerof'tlio Wellington Meat. Export Company, and , of the Wanganui branch of tlio United Rimers' > Co-operative. Assoeiation.'is in: town for a flying- v visit" for-a day- or. two.' On : his return from a trip to the' Old, Country: he gavoan inter*xi 1 -' viewer! a few - particulars, of> the way in which 1 mtho '.London,, meat; rings; aro •, exploiting..th'o .colonial froezihg companies. Ho statos that tits "U" wholeof the * bmithhcld market is a ring of salesmen and agents, who,' he says, bleed the' • colonial companies. - One big firm, which has : : interests in New Zealand, has such a grip -of ■ tho .raarket. as to bo in a;Tiosition % to buv and ' soil at almost any prico if. it chooses. Another ■'< ;way. inywliich the ring'gets' tlio better. of companics is in the weight deducted from each ca>S cass. On arrival in London,' Sib. and tho odd ' ounces are taken from oach carcass, but men :- if ,only 21b. -wero. allowed, tlio.t amount wohlil be - 1 three .million pouiids ori every million and a' 1 — half carcasses which moans £37.500, "and that ' 1 ' seems robbory : on a .pretty wholesale scaloi" Mr. Cunningham emphatically expressed tlio opinion-: that, tho;wily: course open to the' s companios was to pool, ami appoint a roprp- '' soiittttiYO in England to underliiice tho marketing and- distribution -of meat—a course which, ho idys, l ho advocated in several newspapers'''■■' years-ago. ;Wlion informed by . tho: interviewer S 1 ; that a confereiaco . >would . shortly bo' hold ,to iv'■ disciiss 'tho ;mattor; ho expressed tho' hope '■ that-*-'5 tlio .'representatives of tho freezing would; go ..beyond talking. So far ,as was'; concerned, ■-,• lie'.; said,the - ring - is': now • so'-' v ' ! strong: as>tcbo,iunn-egnaWe, and, oven in the': ' already' alAiost-'J £'! gut;,.; ■ fwt,'