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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 15 October 1915, Page 8

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j D'ALGETY AND COMPANY, LTD,, PALMERSTON NORTH. At cur Palmerston North sale on Thursday, 14th inst., we have to report having a very good entry of slheep and cattle, all of which sold under keen competition at prices as follows: Shorn hoggets 14/11. Mixed woolly hoggets 18/1, 20/8, 21/7 to 22/8. Forward ewes to 24’7. Empty cows to £4 2/6. 1, Forward cows £6 13/. Light fat cows £9 3/ to £lO. Empty 1« months heifers to £3. 2-year steers to £6 7/.

“It’s a crying shame that we should be exporting tons and tons of mutton and tens and tens of hsef when we have to pay such an exorbitant price for cur meat.”-»-Mr P. C. Webb, in the House. The firm cf Abraham and Williams is well represented at the front, as no loss than 14 employees have responded to the call, and ten have already received tSbelr baptism cf fire la the firm’s premises in Rangitikei street, Palmerston, a collection of portraits cf the following men on active service can be seen: Lieut. Buchanan, Sergeant La Roche, Sergeant W. E. Collins, Bombadier Bryan, Corpora! Lyons, Lance-Corporal N. 11. Judd, Gunner Priest, Trooper Strang, Trooper Hugh Redpath, and Private Mexted, In addition to these Privates L. R. Hardy, S. Robinson and J. G. Jamieson have also enlisted and gone into training. . Referring in the House to the price of meat, Sir Joseph Ward remarked that iu New Zealand during the I months of July, August, and September it was almost impossible to get bullocks. If, as had been, alleged, five men had had to go out of business a s butchers, because of the excessive cost of meat, what was going to (happen if they took all the war profits away from all the people who were making those profits? At the present moment they were taking over a million sterling per annum cut of the pockets of those who were making war profits. Otlher difficulties connected with the problem would be considered by the Board of Trade which it had been proposed to set up. '