EARL KEEPS SHOP

Evening Star, Issue 19840, 13 April 1928, Page 3

EARL KEEPS SHOP

SELLS OWN PRODUCE BROTHER A HOTELKEEPER. LONDON. April 3. In order to obtain first-hand knowledge of the marketing of produce, Earl Beauchamp, a former Governor ol New South Wales, is conducting a butcher’s shop at Malvern. The establishment is supplied from a. model slaughterhouse, and combined with it is a greengrocer’s and fruiterer’s shop; also a poulterer’s business. The earl is selling the produce of his own estates. In twelve months ho sold twenty tons of apples, five tons of pears, and twenty tons of soft fruit. “T am determined to prove that farming is profitable if the farmer is fairly treated,” he says. Earl _ Beanchamp’s brother. Major Lygon. is now host of the hotel “Hand and Shears.”