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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume 1, Issue VI, 7 June 1905, Page 2

been a drug on the market so long, this will be welcome news. There is a possibility, however, of what has happened ih the pa^t being repeated. V\ hen a freeiijfg order has come our way !manys ,'awners have held tight, refusing t6|sell, m thd hope of getting the jbenefit of the impetus the market would" receive through a large number of cattle being disposed of outside the local market. The result m such a, case is that the order cannot be filled and that the farmers lose'tlie benefit of it.

This Was the easel when the last order came to ' Southland. It. meant 80i per hundred tp the freezer/" but was allowed to go^ past, because owners Pf cattlef would not sell, presumably from fear Hhat their neighbour, who intended' to hold^ might realise a higher -price latter the order was filled. :•■ ■■ ' A

VI T I, Vi ' ' ■f.' - *. '< V. V* There »is' nothing like a good freezing order top help tHe cattle market along, and * understand that, if the price ■ is? rpasiSrjhble, there M a chance n^x>t) a i4|rg*e quantity at beef bq|n^rjVp^*,B Ca^le hitfhjf 1 X:xZx y%