THE MEAT WARRANTY QUESTION

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 492, 27 April 1909, Page 10

THE MEAT WARRANTY QUESTION

AN AUCKLAND MOVE. • During• the)'three, months in which;the new .Auckland, abattoirs have been open (telegraphs -our special Auckland correspondent) '■the/ quantity of stock condemned lias, aroused t'uo master , butchcrs to evolving a scheme of : insurance to recoup them for losses., Graziers * . and/farmers in. tho district havo been cir-. : cularisod,'iind the proposals aro being placed before .them;in detail; Air important;point •' at issue seems to bo . whether both buyer and seller of vstock 'should'contribute . toward this' insurance fund;' : ■At a ; me'cti«g.called ,by ■ the Auckland A. ;and Pl'Associatioii/tlie case, ■for .the,;:ta'astor;;butphersyTyas'f'put'.ljy. repre- , . sentatives • of their' association,-- one v argunient • advanced lining that tho insurance fund, if . estrMshed, would,, by ; guaranteeing stock, ; in'ducc.biitchirs to pay. 25./Odi per'-head more and lead to' better. competifcionV'vlheigraziere. and farmers, present, whilst apparently -fav- ■ ouring some form of insurance, were' not quite 1 clear -as-to'whether thoy ought'to pay, half ■.the'fceS;. //.It was eventually : decided to ad-, jouru consideration' until the conference ; tb'- : bo held at the ;Winter Show/y week,' when delegates/from'A. and ;P. Associations and Fanners'/.Unions, in'' other centres will .be 'in .attendance.'/ During'the' discussion 7 the point / ■was raiseel that. graziers ',should:'.'safeguard; tliemselyos:'against ...th6/:possibility of - butchers drawing/ .compensation', money from the proposed insurance fund on account of stock bought 'outsiclo' the - Auckland province. . / The; warranty qubsti6n has Wen'-'.exercising tho'njihds of butchers in. England for n considerable, period past. In fact, the butchers threatened to stop buying English, stock unless the farmers. came to ■ terms with them. .' Tho contest is still unsettled. In Wales, 1 however, the warranty, has. been', given for some years past, and it is- said to bo work-, ing satisfactorily, tho farmers ' being con- 1 'vinced that the better prices received for 'their stock amply ropay tho cost.' • ■ An insurance system Aery similar to that how proposed at Auckland lias beon in . operation for. some, years past at Addington saleyards. 'It has licit yet been, adopted in relation to any of. the freezing works in New Zealand. . ./• ••: , '• '~,/'■