CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 87, 4 September 1863, Page 2

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

IMPORTATION OB CATTLE. §|| A deputation, consisting of Messrs ||| donald (vice-chairman) , P. L. Francis, TO ton, and Button, appointed at last meetjs the Chamber, yesterday at eleven cli a.m., waited upon his Honor the Sujg ! tendent with the following.meniorial :Ja| To His Honor the Superintendent of the PiJh of Southland. % Ji| The Memorial of the Invercargill ChanS . Commerce, . pi Respectfully showeth, — ' _ |1| That your petitioners ; consider the tinj|| arrived wbyn the restrictions on the impoJ|i of cattle from ports now barred here, bu{S nised as shipping ports by the O ago Govenpi should be removed. pi That the number of stock in the ProTfif even now insufficient to supply the inbaipSj with meat, and in the anticipated increase till population in the spring, it is absolutely ||| sary that some provision should be made. p|| That the present restrictions here are sffi| guard against such prohibited cattle being ||| into this Province, while the ports of I|| are open, ' mfc And your petitioners will ever pray, &e."||| After reading the memorial a lengt||| discussion took place in regard to the p|||| supply of meat ; the present cost to thaii sumer and the difficulty of carrying oi||| present restrictive regulations while thifi| of Otago were open. His Honor consi||p that as by the last census returns, the|||| her of cattle in the province showed aß| crease of 25 per cent, upon former ie&§j§j the first point would not hold. AgaiP^ regard to the cost to the consumer, thef|J tation must know that the prices of ipjf were no heavier than those ruling last§f| In reply it was stated by Mr McD||t| that it was well known that the whl||| prices had risen from 60s to 75s per \§§? : higher than last year ; and from that (^ was to be presumed that the retail §sM would advance in a like ratio. ||| In reference to the third point, to |||| being introduced from Otago, his 'Wm thought they were iii a more favorable p; ||| thanmighthavebeen at firstsupposed; f||| cattle would have to be driven some 2ft)S before the boundaries -of the Province ||| reached, and any latent disease woul^w tainly show itself after such a journey|||| besides they would be probably W& ped before they crossed the boundarj|||| connection with the whole question of ftjfli of restrictions upon importation froJjjii same ports as was the use in Otago, her/|| assure the Deputation, that the Methyl emanating as it did from the Chamtr j® Commerce, should have the serious cola M ration of government; and he was p£sJl to find that the members of the Chanib£j|j| taken up the subject in the spirit they||§| After thanking his tlohor for the coa4|§| hearing that had been afforded them^fl Deputation withdrew. V j|j