PACIFIC TRADE
» QUICKER SERVICE AND BETTER FACILITIES WANTED. RETURN OF MR. A. W. PEARSE. (BT TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Mr. A. W. Pearse, editor of the PastoraJists' Review, who represented the meat freezing companies of New Zealand and Australia at the Refrigerating Congress at Chicago, is a passenger by the Marama from Vancouver. He states that over £50,00 was spent in entertaining the delegates. Two of the banquets were unique. At the meat packers' annual dinner there were 600 guests, all in scarlet hunting coats, and a man on horseback and a pack of hounds patrolled the room between the tables for a time. Questioned regarding the meat trust, Mr. Pearse said the rivalry between the competing interests made combined action impossible. The prices paid for cattle were so high that they must be losing from five to seven dollars on each beast. Mr. Pearse its of opinion, that the Panama Canal at first will do more harm than good. So far as our interests are concerned it would bring Argentine and Uruguayan meat and butter in quick time to Pacific ports, where, so far, Australia had a monopoly. It was a large trade and bound to develop. A much quicker service and larger refrigerated tonnage were urgently needed by Australia and New Zealand for the Pacific coast.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1913, Page 8
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220PACIFIC TRADE Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1913, Page 8
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