The Daily News. TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1903. MR SEDDON'S BUTCHERS' SHOPS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 169, 21 July 1903, Page 2

The Daily News. TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1903. MR SEDDON'S BUTCHERS' SHOPS.

Since Mr Seddon c ime into power tin moss ardent colooiil cannot claim that New Z alicd is insufficiently ndvertised. Time wos when cnmplaints were heard on every side from returning colonists tbat New Zealand was practically unknown at Home. Mr Sedd m, wLethcr of set purpose or not, has changad all thip, and New Zealand is in every one's mouth at Home tov, Mr Seddon's latest and probably most successful feat in this line is the propositi to open shops for the disposal of N-'w Zealand mea*. We do not propose to refer here to the numerous complaints regarding the treatment of New Z >aland meat at Horn 3, but there i > no doubt the result of Mr Seddon's latest move is that there are few people at Home now who have not heard of it. Neatly every paper of standing has written leading articles on the subject and devoted an amount of spice to 'ho discussion of the subject which must be tx'recr.ely gratifying to Mr Seddon and the ptopl) of New Zealand generally. The same amount of advertising, if piid for in the ordinary way, would have cat thousands of pounds. Indeed, in the case of some of the tapers which have dealt with the subject, no money would hive tempted them to give the erne space had thsy been asked to do so An instance ot the splendid advertisennnt the colony is receiving is shown by a writer in the Pall Mall Gazette, who holds forth in cheery fashion on " Mr Seddon's Butcher's Shop," He insists that the main cause of the Premier's decision to take a hand in r.-tailing New Zealand mutton is "the feeling that pervades the eolony against private monopolies of any kind—a sentiment whose value at the ballot-box the Premier is able to astutely gauge. . . , Already in New Zealand , . . State Socialism is in full blast; and, judging by the Progressists' continued majority, the people are sa'isfied to sea a continuous extersion of the operations of this great State ttu<t. Hence there can be no doubt that this move of the Premier will nob lose him any votes. Nay, the cry of breaking up the alleged monopolies of the fiezen meat trade will be as valuable an esstt in bis next campaign as his policy ot ' bursting up the big estates' eerved him at a previous election. The people of New Zealand believe that too much of the profit of the froz a meat trade goes into the pockets of the shipping and distributing companies—too little to the faimers. Whether Mr Seddon can do the thing cheaper>will require a trial. The point is that be is prepired to make the t> ial." The other cause of a Privy Councillor selling his own moat is, the'P.M.G.' scribe declares, "the aggressive belief in itse'f that New Zealand abundantly possesses. Maoriland won't be happy unless it is advertised. It suffers from a vague suspicion that England is eating its lamb, and doesn't know it. That is a flight upon a strenuous colony, and must bi instantly remedied. If it is hocessary to give its mutton away, New ZeaUnd will do it—for a time. Here Mi' Seddon is only acting upon woll-uuderstood business principles. First ciea'e your demand ; your pre fit naturally fellows." The writer thinks test wheber provincial England will be able to buy its meat at a price that will mean the ruin of the British farmer, or whether Mr Seddon finds that there are more trioks in "a trade that knows wbat is inside the sausage than even ho can master, the result; to himself aud to New Zealand will undoubtedly be a distinct gain. " First, Mr Seddon will have conciliated a class in his colony that has never acqu'escod in his policy of labor and social- experiments. Already the Premier is son ewhat wearied with the clamant grievances of the working classes, and has petulantly told them that it is time fcr tho ship o'state t:' go slow,' and the sheep farmer looks impatiently to I he Government t) give him his long-delayed turn, of th.3 apiareatly inejbauxiKa bounty cj ijj >

State. Atd next., Mr Seddon will have givrfu New Zealand another of I thcso advertisements upon which s« erua to subsist. Aod aa already the man in the Strand considers that Mr I Seddon is New Z 'aknd, the good work of advertisemsnt vill go serenely on, and Mr Seddon, lu'ober and Privy Oout.ciilor, will be one step nearer his goal-the first Premiership of the Federated Umpire. The coming butcher shops hive aroused hop s of work for the most forlorn out-o'-works. The Agoi:t is inundated wish let-1 tors and iuquTiw, most of the applicants want billets, managors, counter j men, " sanall goods " men, the "buy-buy-buy " men with raucous voices, and a!l soits and conditions of men. Then there are ihe penple with shops to sill or to let, owners of cold storage. Chambers of Commerce wantieg pwv ticukrp, borough councils siying s'".;.rli a shop here," Oroyloa and Re'd'ng taking the lead. It's an ill wind that, blows nobody good. Even if the shops mver start gi.od business may be expected to fo'low the publicity given to Nc-w Zeiland meat. The exports of Now Zeahnd produce during Mr Seddon'ij ten years' Premiership have increased greatly, and in the case of frozen raeit ftom X 1,033,377 to .£2,718.763. The outlook is certainly promising.