HANDLING OUR MEAT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 216, 12 March 1914, Page 2

HANDLING OUR MEAT.

"A GLARING INACCURACY." By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne, Last Night. ,At a meeting held at Gisborne early in February, at which Mr. H. Estell, represented the Port of London Authority, debating with Mr. W. D. Lysnar, of Gisborno, on the subject of the facilities at London and West of England ports for handling New Zealand produce, Mr. Estell stated that Now. Zealand meat was being discharged at the Royal Victoria Docks by elevators and endless conveyors carrying the meat under cover direct to carts and railway vans. Mr. Lysnar challenged this statement, and said the conveyers merely carried the meat to a sorting base in the vicinity of the ship. Mr. Estell challenged Mr. Lyßnar to cable to the High Commissioner for information and the subject, and this Mr. Lysnar straightway did. He has now received a cable from the High Commissioner, through the Premier, as follows:—"Please inform Mr. Lysnar that there has been no alteration in the handling of New Zealand meat at tho Victoria Docks since his visit, but the Port of London Authority have commenced work on sorting sheds, by which frozen meat will be dealt with under cover." Mr. Lysnar therefore claims that Mr. Estell was wrong, and says '-'this is not the only glaring, inaccuracy which has been circulated by opponents of our cause."