The Stockowners and the Butchers.
The long-standing feud betweon the stockowncrs and the wholesale butchers with respect to compensation for diseased carcases ha« been settled at last. For a long time the former took their stand on the high-and-mighty caveat empt< r principle and refused to make any concession. The Stockouners' Association has now, however, agreed to recommend that a shilling be deducted from the price of even head of cattle sold through the yards, to form the nucleus of a fund for * compensation. The butchers, on their jwirt, will add sixpence per head, and as they also get the value of the hide, &c., of the condemned animal, they ought to be able to manage to keep the fund alive. This, however, assumes that the stockowners are willing to fall in wth the recommendation of their Association, and that the percentage of condemnations does not exceed the present rate, namely, about 1 per cent. In 1895 it was over 3 per cent, a rate which would break down the fund altogether.— Canterbury Times' Sydney correspondent.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 107, 2 November 1897, Page 2
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