MEAT PRICES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 8, 21 December 1925, Page 5

MEAT PRICES.

MR. LYSNAR AND THE BIG INTERESTS. Gisborne, Dee. 20. At the annual meeting of the Poverty Bay Farmers’ Meat Company, Mr. W. D. Lysnar, presiding over a small attendance, said that although th 0 shareholders of tho Wellington Meat Export Company had signified their willingness to sell to Borthwick’s ho considered that t«e Government should withhold the license. He said that all present would regret the reduction in the prices offered for meat this season. It was nothing more than what ho expected for they knew that through the operations of big buyers many smaller buyers had been shut out last year, and alter the small men had gone out this season the result was that the buying was now focussed among tho large firms. It was apparent. ho alleged, that an undersfandinoexisted, and one thing that helped to aggravate the position was that the Meat Board was not functioning as it should. If the farmers were to bo saved the Government would have to act up to Its promises, and save the people from the combines. If big overseas concerns were going to continue buying up farmers’ concerns then farmers wore gOLIl",to be placed in a dangerous ano awkward position. After the expeiience of their own company being allowed to go to what he regarded as the biggest combine in the world, they could hardlv conceive that the Government would sanction the salp oi the Wellington works to Borthwick s. another large overseas cmvei'n.