MEAT ON THE LONDON MARKET.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 84, 10 April 1911, Page 3

MEAT ON THE LONDON MARKET.

MASTERTON, Bth April. At the conclusion of a meeting of the committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association to-day, a sum of £71 was subscribed towards the cost of sending a representative of the producers to the Old Country to investigate th« frozen meat question, and to end«avour to improve the conditions at the other end. It is und-erstood that Mr Shelton, of Gisborne, is to bo selected for the position at a salary of £}500, and that he will leave for En£t land iii the course yf a few days. BOY KILLED. DUNEDIN, Bth April. Stevens, six years of age. was killed on Thursday evening by being run over by a cart- at North-Eaet Valley. At th« inquest a verdict of accidental death -was returned, no blame having being attachable to anyone. MISCELLANEOUS. DUNEDIN, Bth April. Alexander Wilson, a labourer, living at Milton, was found dead this morning, shot through the head. He had been in ill-health, and the circumstances point to suicide. LEVIN,' Bth April. The Horowhenua County Council resolved to-day that it would "take no action in the election of Harbour Board menVbers as a protest against the new, cumbersome, and expensive system of election." TIMARU, Bth April. Save two or three rusty boate, the last relics of the old surf "boating days are about to disappear by burial under the boat launching ways beneath the reclamation roadway to the new wharf. The - potato grub is reported from several localities in thie district NEW PLYMOUTH, 9th April. Glorious rains fell during the week, and winter feed is assured. NORTH JDTAGO GRAIN MARKET. -« _ fBI TBLEGSAJPH — Pnngs ASSOCIATION.] OAMARD, 3th April. Tho week has been an unusually quiet one for all markets, neither buyers nor sellers being keen lo do business. Most of the farmers have now disposed of their wheat, &«il thoho holding are men of independent means who can well affoicl to wait for better prices. Nominally wheat is worth 5s Id (on trucks, less commission) for Velvet, while the same value holds good for Tuscan. Transactions in locallvgrown oats are very few, merchants purchasing from outside to fill local requirement*. Nothing is doing in potatoes, owing to tho ravages of the potato moth.