THE MEAT MARKET.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2093, 5 December 1885, Page 2

THE MEAT MARKET.

TO THE KtliroK. Sin, — I would liko to say ;i fow words in an-wei to Mr K. Allen, jun.. who writes to you on the above Mibject. First of all, Mr Allens letter shows very distinctly what I li.no mi often s,\i<l and written, that the fiiiMKTs ,\s .1 lulu do not ic.illy know how to go .(bout things in a thuiough busineift manner. The idea of Mi Allen going to the pnncipal butchers in Auckland and asking them if they would buy our dead meat ! Why of course they will not. Any in in of business ought to know that. I nevei flieamt of going to these butchers to ask .such nn absurd question. Why, Sir, tho-o men arc making foi tunes out of it, md Mi Allen coolly a-^ks them to stop that game and let us do it in their htoad. If n mm was going to otnrt a newspaper would he go to the propiietor of The Tunes nnd .tsk him and his subscribe! s to advertise and subscribe '! If Mr Allen was, wo will say, going to st.ut a atationer's -Imp in Cambiidgo, would he go to Mi Dickinson and ask him if ho would buy his goods from him (Mr A.) ? I think not, and yet tl.i.s is exactly what Mr Allen has done about the meat. Ho goes to men who must naturally be the avowed enemies of the scheme, and takes their opinion on thn matter, and actually beliews what they toll him about the mat* tei. Simple young man. Were it not for the fact that Mr Allen says that ho in in fi\ our of the me.it slaughteuiig, I hhould think that ho was writing m the intercut* of the auctioneers, butchers, and the Bank of New Zealand, as all his arguments are in their f.-ivoui, liut I am bound to take his word tli.it he would liko to remedy the evil, although he lias gone about it in a curious w ay. Mr Allen makes certain statements about the .selling of beef by the Freezing Compmyat 1/d, kc. This I must leave Air Hanks to answer, niniply stating that if what the leading butchers told Mr Allen ii truo, then Mr IS.uiks has undo statements that aio the levcr-c of tine, as that gentleman has s.nd publicly that the demand for dead meat was mci easing every week. Mr Allen must not think that I am of opinion that we cm ni'ke a decided success of the meat business \\ itliout a hard fight, bacause I know well the opposition wo Mhall have to encounter, but th.it we will succeed eventually I fiunly liuliove. As to the moat going b;id m transit, tlm argument in all one sided, is experts tell us that it can be sent by tail without any risk at all of its going bad, and the statement that meat fio'iui'iith goes bid between St. Ann's I'udgo and Auckland is &imply not a fact, being made only iv the interests of the butchers. The men that we would deal with in tho dead moat lino are nut the leading butcheis of Auckland, to whom Mr Allen alludex, but the retail men who aro supplied by these leading butchern, and who would natuially come, to tho beat and cheapest nnikot for their moat, and there i-i a veiy laige number of these men in Auckland. Tv conclusion, I would say that Mr Allen is evidently one of those farmers who " hu\e no reliance on themselves," but wlio lather tiust tho statements of a clasi of tradesmen who «ie growing wealthy and fat out of tho farmcis of tho district, than pluck up courage to fight their own battles and «ecuio for themselves what of right belongs to them, i.e., the profits of growing bcof and mutton. I will w rite further when I hear from Mi Banks about the dead meat market. — I am, Sir, yours faithfully, T. ii. SANPEd,