OUR LAMB IN AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3590, 29 September 1920, Page 5

OUR LAMB IN AMERICA.

TRUST INFLUENCES. , (Published By Arrangement). In the issue of the Weekly Press of September 22nd, . the Editor of the Farming and Station Columns of that j journal makes some interesting com- 1 merits relative to the American position. Dealing with the letter by Mr J. B. Reid, Elderslie, which was reproduced in our issue of yesterday he writes Mr Reid does not anticipate harmful Trade influences. Some years ago, he remarks, he advocated sending lamb to California but ,was told that the Trust would block it. Now it is the other way about —it is n it the Trust from whom opposition will come, but rather the American farmers. But in any case the system of retailing would make it difficult for the Trust to do anything mischievous. It could screw down the butchers’ retail shops, but, as Mr Reid points out, customers are prepared to pay cash and carry away their purchases, and the shops can be closed ‘when supplies run out, and be opened again when shipments arrive. Whilst the New Zealand Government own the Railways, Mr Reid cannot see how the Trust can interfere with us. Some years ago the then general manager for New Zealand of Armour & Co. made a similar remark to me — “Whilst the State owns this track you need never he afraid of a Trust.” However, as the letter states, it is the farmers from whom opposition might come but “it will be years before we can send the quantity required to bring this about, and in the meantime the markets are waiting for usf Mr Reid is voicing a general opinion in recommending the appointment of a. first-class practical man to go thoroughly into the market prospects, and it is to be hoped that Sir Thomas Mackenzie, who is about to visit Canada in connection with trade matters, has a sufficiently extensive commission to do this. All the money required for internal development in this country will have to be raised within the Dominion, and Mr Reid stresses the necessity of producing as much as possible to enable this to be done. Incidentally the relationship between Labour and Capital is introduced by the writer who thinks it suicidal to be engaging in strife “whilst we should be selling, when the market is at top, for the benefit, of all classes.” COAL KBTOH WRECKED, : BOTTOM UP ON REEF. NO SIGN OP CREW. Received 11.40 a.m. SUVA, This Day. The ketch Korunah, forty tons, in charge of Captain Kerrison, left Newcastle on Id th August- for Suva, loaded with coal It was believed the vessel had been wrecked at Cuvu, an the southeast coast of. Vif! Levu. Oh Friday night the vessel was seen bottom up on a reef, but there was no sign of the lifeboat or crew. ’The steamer Eanadi leaves to-morrow to search for the crew.