GOVERNMENT MEAT PURCHASES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2892, 3 October 1916, Page 10

GOVERNMENT MEAT PURCHASES

WILL. THE PRICE BE INCREASED ? U.' By' Teltegraph—Press Association. , Christchuroh, October 2. ' Sir- George Clifford, chairman of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, '.writes as follows to tho '.'Press": —"Information received from our, agents in London,'indicates that there is a probability, amounting nearly to an assurance that tho Government price for meat shipped on Government account from tho Dominion will be increased for the coming season. . I deem it a duty to make public this intimation for wbat it is worth, in'view of our wish to protect all interests affected." : —[The above telegram was submitted last night to the Hon, W./D. S. MacDonald, who is now in chargoof .the I meat purchase schema. Mr. Mao Donald / said that both Mr. Maesey and he had ; been in- correspondence irith the lin- ' perial Board of _ Trade. since January about . the prioe list for ithe season soon io had'been unablo to get '-any definite information. He had had no indication from the High Commis-' sionor or from any other sourco.that the prices for New Zealand meat were likely-to be increased'this year. It wafe, ■ he holieved, a fact that prices for certain meat had been increased in some, of the Australian States,-and he-would riot bo very much surprised if the prices' of New Zealand meat were raised, but he had absolutely no hint, of any land ' from tho Board of Trade tojustify such an expixitation. He hoped to Have de- _ finite advice on the- subject very soon.]