CORRESPONDENCE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3956, 25 March 1884, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE TRADE.

ITo TiiK Enrron or the Daily Temwiiapii.] g IK _l noticed a Jotter in your pnper a few cliiv's since statin- the whole of the moat sent to London from New Zealand whs .sent to one man, and he got h per cent commission, and employed SmitMield salesmen to si ill it at 2 per cent commission. The whole thin? ■'•■'-.t.s altering. So far it has been a trial, ..u now it should bo put on the best footing-. "When I was in Liverpool, England, eight years since, thsre were three very large shops hired for selling American beef and mutton. All the good joints fetched Bd, breast.-;, shins, and sticking cut of beef od, and there was such a rush of people for it that they had to put a wicket across the door, and a man stationed to let them in one at a time, and let out by another door, the demand was so great. Now, I think if the Freezing Companies, instead of giving h per cent to their head .salesman, would give him 1 per cent, with a guarantee of £000 a year, they would find plenty of good men competent to take it, hc'should be empowered to take pay a dozen largo shops in London in suitable places, and one responsible man should be put in ouch shop, »>»/ he should employ what men he wanted to assist him. The man in each shop should be allowed Id per lb for selling, and he should bo charged G.\d or Tdperlbfor beef and mutton by the carcass, and it he paid the man and shop rent 6id, and he would have 1-i-d for himself and expenses. Some of the largo brewers in England are adopting that system : they put a steady barman in a large public house—probably ho has saved £200 or £300—they charge him so much a barrel for all, so much a dozen for wine and spirits, in the same way profit upon everything he sells. That is the only way they could open shops without being robbed. If they opened shops in London on this principle they could sell twice the, quantity of meat this colony can send. If the mini the sheep are consigned to got Gd a head commission on sheep, and os on cattle, which would bo about 1 per cent., in a short time he would get several thousands a year. The present man is getting £70()"to £800 every ship commission, and paying the Smithfield salesman a little over one-third of it to do the work. The thing is wrong altogether; it is eaten up with unnecessary expenses. I like to see the colony go a head.—l am, Hoaro. Ilavolock, March 21, ISS-1.