A COSTLY CUSTOM
LOSS OF £60,000 YEARLY,
'An ancient, but costly, custom was referred to by Sir James Wilson at the Farmers' Union Conference yesterday. The custom is that known as the.allowance of one pound on lamb and two pounds on mutton in tlio London market. Sir James Wilson said' 'In most other markets no such allowance is made. "Why should a buyer in London get lib. weight of lamb, worth 6d. a pound, for nothing if the buyers in Bristol pay for the whole carcass. .There is no justification for it, except that it dates from tho time when meat in iSmithfield was weighed by the steelyard, when a possiblo mistake might be made. Now with modern scales tho weights can bo adjusted to tho ounce. Here again it only requires a combination to have this custom abolished. There are plenty of other channels to send our. meat-. Southampton, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Hull—all have modern means of unloading and storing meat. In 1914, there were 3,854,348 carcasses of lamb sent from this country. Suppose that 2,500,000 wore sold through London, we have lost at least fid a carcass; that amounts, at any rate, to over £50,000 wo have given the London buyer, besides what lie gets on our mutton.''
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2525, 28 July 1915, Page 2
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211A COSTLY CUSTOM Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2525, 28 July 1915, Page 2
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