MEAT EXPORT TRADE.
HEAVY LOSSES INOF HH.FD. C ONTR.f BI TING IACIUHS. ; V CABIiii—PBUSS ASSOCIATION —COP VEIGHT. S YDN EY. J line _ 22. _ M'Otli reieien.ee to the depression in the me-ai- trade, the “Sydney Morniiug Heraiki ’ says: “For some time export houses having been losing heavily, several ireer.iing works have cio-seit down, mid a number of exporters have gone out of b.usii'iieis.s. One authoniky piaew the exporters’ losses, at £2,000,060. while ot her qua i ters, regard this aw a conservative estimate- and. point out that the loss will continue, but cannot go on .indefinitely, and if more exporters are forced out of the trade, stuck owners must, suffer. A number of la.c.tors have contriibufed to create this un i sia.ti:sliudtiory position, one of the chief being the increase in the-cost of operating freezing works. which has gone tip one hundred per cent., wliiie the prices of exported meat in London are down to practtidailily pre-war level. An orgiaiti'sed -effont on the part of the Churn on wealth Gaverniment, pastoral Ls.te, and those- interested in the meat export trade is strongly urged in order to, retrieve, the position.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 June 1927, Page 7
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188MEAT EXPORT TRADE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 June 1927, Page 7
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