MEAT AND MOTORS

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 24 November 1921, Page 3

MEAT AND MOTORS

[10 THE EDITOR.]

SIR, —In view of the very low price of cattle at the last few, sales, especially beef of all grades, would it not be possible for growers to combine and auction meat once or twice ? Under the Act settlers are allowed to slaughter their own requirements and that of their neighbours, up to a certain amount, without license. If this were done, and a few carcases put in fcr a trial, properly cut into joints, etc., there is no doubt a profitable business could be built up. Why meat remains the same price when cattle are almost given away (vide daily papers) is quite beyond my "compre." In connection with this matter the N.Z. Farmers' Union might lend a helping hand by gratuitously allowing one of their men to sell the meat at their own premises. As a matter of fact, may I suggest that these same premises would be none the worse for a decent fence, and a little grass instead of weeds and rubbish, both on that and the adjoining section.

The letters and discussions re motor-car traffic and motor taxes, and the bad roads, bad grades, and bad everything else, makes one wonder why the traffic to the Springs should not be conducted from the South railway station. That station is as much Helensville as the north station. I would ask those handling traffic to the Springs to consider this matter, as a great saving to their own wear and tear, and also to the roads, would be effected. —Yours, etc., Observer.

[Our correspondent has evidently been reading Lewis Carroll's lines on "The Walrus and the Carpenter." His references are as varied as "shoes and ships and sealing-wax and cabbages and kings."—Ed.]