MEAT BOARD'S LONDON STORE.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 5, 7 January 1928, Page 16

MEAT BOARD'S LONDON STORE.

The London correspondent of The Pastoral Review" (Sydney), commenting on the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board's intention to build its own cold store in London, remarks:—"Even were cold storage a flourishing business in London, the board would undoubtedly alienate the sym-

pathy of the whole of the trade by .sockins to enter as a competitor, just in the same way us if meat buyers I'rum London were to enter tho lanib-growins business in tlic Dominion by getting a combination to make purchases under the nose of the industry there. Trade conditions, however, are not so free in the Dominion iis they are in the Old Country. The impracticability of New Zealand ever successfully coping with her seasonal supplies from hor own establishment in London is stoutly maintained by those in the trade, who state that )>ot only will it be impossible to manage all the traffic to market from one source at rush periods, but that at certain periods the fullness of supply would require the old dependence on other stores, which obviously could not in the ordinary way of business assist one who was a rival instead of a customer."