THE MEAT MARKET.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 478, 10 April 1909, Page 3

THE MEAT MARKET.

If one can judge by what tho buyers themselves say, tho commerce in. New Zealand meat this season has not yielded a very groat margin of profit to the' middlemen. A buyer remarked to a Dominion representa'tive yesterday, that anyone could have all the meat which they had exported this season oh the basis of half tho freezing charges. The stock farmers, apparently, like tho dairy farmers, havo been getting their full share of tho value of their produce. There havo been several reductions this season in the prices paid to the' farmers, and this is attributed to tho large supplies going Home, and to tho general slowness of tho retail trade in Britain. Tho cabled reports that three weeks ago there were a million lambs stored in London, and that subsequently the stores wore almost full—meaning, porhaps, nearly two million carcasses— aro quoted in support of this view of buyers' experiences this season. On, tho whole,' apparently, the meat producers as well as the butter and cheese producers, havo causo to be pleasod so far, over their share in the spoils of 190S-9.