POVERTY BAY AND VESTEY'S

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1923, Page 9

POVERTY BAY AND VESTEY'S

INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO A BUYER. <BI UIMIUPH.—rKBSS ASSOCIATION.) ._ GISBORNE, 29th October. Regarding the letter from the representative, of Vestey's, which was read by the president of the Farmers' Union at the executive meeting in Wellington (addressed to the general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand), which stated that tha Taruheru works were open at all times to farmers for killing and freezing stock, and that had they secured Waipaoa work* it was their intention to carry on the tame procedure, the directors of the Poverty Bay Farmers' Meat Company desire to draw public attention to their .contention that in the past Vestey's have not always allowed freezing on owners' account at the Taruheru works. They have received the following unsolicited letter,from one of Vestey's late pickers and buyers of fat stock for the Taruheru works:—"For your information I may state that up to about 1920 I was picking sheep for Nelson Bros, and Vestey's for the Taruheru works, Gisborne, and in the course of my duties I had to negotiate for the purchase of sheep. During the last year I operated- my instructions were that the company would not allow stock to be put through on owners account, that they would either buy them right "but or they . would have to go through at what was | called the consolidated rate, which makes the works the sole agent* and sellers of meat, and they consequently Ct"?*? 1 J£ 6 Bale °'f il at *c English end. This letter, say the directors, requires, m their opinion, no comment.