THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE.
A meeting of about fifty paatoraliets and graziers was held on Saturday afternoon at Timaru, to hear Mr M. C. Orbell, of Geraldine, explain his scheme for a co-operative Company to control the frozan meat trade. Mr- Orball's .scheme resembles Mr Nathan's, but he puts the capital required roughly at two millions, and proposes to ask the Government to guarantee one and a half millions debenture capital at 4 percent., any payments -under the guarantee to be made good by a general sheep tax of a farthing per bead. Mr &. Action supported the scheme, and in doing so emphatically denied that the quality of the mutton sent from Canterbury had in any degree deteriorated compared with pasi, years, as reported by Messrs NelaouJ. Mr K. Et,worthy admitted the necessity for consideration of the position, but strongly condemned the proposal to seek Slate aid.
Ife motion was proposed as to Mr Orbell's scheme, but it was resolved to ask the Minister for Agriculture to convene a meeting of delegates of Agricultural and Pastoral Societies, Farmers' Clubs, and Freezing Companies to' consider the position of the tra.de. One or two expressed doubts as to the sufficiency of a capital of two millions
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 9157, 15 July 1895, Page 2
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