FROZEN MEAT.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 April 1920, Page 5

FROZEN MEAT.

QUESTION OP CONTROL. NEW ZEALAND HANDICAPPED. On the question of New Zealand and Australian meat now being ofl'ered at Home and its quality as compared with the Argentine shipments, Messrs. R, Arlow and Co., Ltd., Wellington, forward tlip following:— ''Our London agents, Messrs L. C. liallantine and Co., writing under date London, February -20 th, report as follow;-: 'The _ majority of New Zealand and Australian meat offered on the market now is of inferior condition, being store stale, and in numbers of eases meat now released is from boats which arrived in this country as far back as ■\ugiist-September. l!)l!l. Generally speakhij;, the same price is being asked 101 meat under (lovormuent cotitiol as for the South American in bright, and fresh condition, which is being handled direct, bv the South American companies free of control, except as the price is concerned. If. j g not to b ( . wondereil at, therefore, that . hutcher, when A buying his supplies, gnes preference to the South American meat in favor of the colonial. Speaking 1 , therefore, from this end w e feel tliat the time has arrived when decontrol, so far as restraint of trade is concerned, should be made. If this was . ne ' ® toeks mi?ht. at any rate be considerably lowered by accepting the real market value for the inferior-condition goods, and so render it possible to veleve somewhat the congestion at the , nrcsent time.' >' *