WANTED-FASTER BOATS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1887, 23 October 1913, Page 9

WANTED-FASTER BOATS.

* —.:: 1 - . FOR PACIFIC TRADE RIVALRY. ' ' .. inrii ofjori U•. Mr. A. W. Pearse, editor of the 'Pastoraligts'. Review," whp represented tho meat freezing Companies of New Zealand and:AuSralia at the Refrigerating Congress at Chicago, is a passenger by tho Marama from Vancouver. Ho States that over £50,000 Was spent in. entertaining the delegates. Two of tho banquets were unique. At the meat packers' annual dinner there Were 600 guests, all iii scarlet hunting coats, and a mail on horsebhek and a pack of hounds patrolled tho room between tho tables for a time. Questioned regarding the meat trust, Mr. Pearse said tho rivalry betweenthe. competing interests made combined action impossible. The prices paid for cattle were so high that 'they must be losing from five to seven dollars on each beast. . ■ Mr. Pearse is of opinion that the Panama Canal at first will do moro harm than good. So far .is our interests aro \coiicemed it would bring Ar- ■ gentine ahd Uruguayan meat and butter in quick time to Pacific ports, where so far, Australia had a monopoly. It was a large trade and bouild to develop. A much quickor scrvico and larger refrigerated tonhage wefre urgently needed bv Australia and New Zealand for the Pacific coast..