PRICE OF MEAT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 21 December 1925, Page 5

PRICE OF MEAT.

R E DUCTIO N REG RETT ED. AIR. LYSNAR DISCUSSES THE SITUATION. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) GISBORNE, Dec. 20. At the annual meeting of the Poverty Bay Farmers’ Meat Company, Air.. AY. D. Lysnar, AI.P., who presided over a small attendance, said that although the shareholders of the Wellington Meat Export Company had signified their willingness to sell to Borthwick’s, lie considered the Government should withhold the license. Air. Lysnar said that 4\ll present would regret the reduction in prices offered for meat this season. It was nothing more than he expected, for they knew that through the operations of big buyers many smaller buyers had been shut out last year, and some of the small men had gone out this season. The result was that buying was now focussed among the large firnis. It was apparent, he alleged, that an understanding existed, and one thing that helped to aggravate the position was that the' Aleat Board was not functioning as it should. If the farmers were to be saved the Government would have to act up to promises and save the people from combines. If big overseas concerns were going to continue buying up farmers’ concerns, then farmers were going to be placed in a dangerous and awkward position. After the experience of his own company being allowed to go to what he regarded as the biggest combine in the world, they could hardly conceive that the Government would sanction tlie sale of the AVellington works to Borthwiclc’.s, another large overseas concern.