New Zealand meat brought to Smithfield is unloaded first at the docks, and put into cold atore, or shipped by a tug drawn lighter to one of the riverside stoies.' ' Prom the stores it is con-: veyed to the market by van, and pitched there on the 6tall. The pitching begins about midnight? and takes. until 3 a.mv after which the night watchman takes charge until the arrival of the selling staff about 4 a.m. The retailers arrive a little later, ' and buying goes on until 3 p.m. The saies take place quickly, and most' of the' thousands of pounda of business is done ve l.ally, there being no time to sign oraers or contracts. Despite this disputes are very rare.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 19, 15 October 1937, Page 31 (Supplement)
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