MEAT FOR AMERICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1920, Page 4

MEAT FOR AMERICA.

SHIPMENTS PROM NEW ZEALAND, SMALL PORTION FOR THE TRUST. (By Wire.—Parliamentary Report*?.)] Wellington, Last Night. Advice has lately 'been received of additional quantities of mutton and lamb having been sold by the Ifcperial Government for shipment to the United States. This involves a sale of »lightly over: half a million carcases, divide Tup amongst eighteen different buyers, and spread over three shipments. Of this total only 30,000 carcases have been sold to the agents acting on behalf of Armour and Co., while among the other buyers are representative* of both British and American nttill, a small quantity going to another TjttWt firm known as the Morris Baef Co. This certainly suggests very strongly that a market is available in America for New Zealand mutton, and especially lamb, quite independent of purchases made by Armour and Co.. or other Meat Trust firms, and that it would be wrong to assume that New Zealand mutton and lamb cannot be sold in America 'except to the Trust. It must be borne in mind that the powerful American companies known as the "Big Fife" have been severely handled by their own (.overnment just lately, and that the United States Government doubtless has a full appreciation of the value of free and open trading within its own boriUrs.