ARMY CONTRACTS AND NEW ZEALAND MEAT.
TO THE EDITOIt O? "THE PRESS." Sir,—-I note in your leader of February 19th, re frozen meat trade, yen cay. *'N«w Zealand -ere-Ci-, -not*.- bebig excluded from army cor.t-raotfi, etc., etc." That- may l>e go. but otiM ilia't do:? net prevent them, together with Australian «nd Argentine meit. being deliverrd dn fulSlnicnt of contrr.-c-'.is. 1 have freqv.ently obifrsrved that- happen eirAe I have been in the Army. I mav ;\\fo state at the game time that both Queensland mutton and 1,-oof, and tinn-d mc-ats, ai-e preferred by tlie men to cMiers. On the voya.p;o out frctu England, wlicn th-rre ire re ever
2000 nK.i on board, we had-cxch.iiivvly mutton and heci\ and during the ttbele trip there war. not a M.iijde complaint "Tliough lam a Now Zcila-nder, and have alwavo rdn_*k up for the meat from my cwri count xy, I must-.confess thnt I prefer Queensland frozen meats to all cthere.—Y'ours, etc., OBSERVER. BareiUy, India, ilarch 19th.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13098, 24 April 1908, Page 8
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