ARMY MEAT CONTRACTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7372, 25 January 1902, Page 2

ARMY MEAT CONTRACTS.

THE ARGENTINE COMPETITION.

ME SEDDON ON THE SUBJECT.

(PKR PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Welmngtok, January 24. At the m banquet on the troopship Surrey to-day, the Premier, in replying to the toast of " The Government," said the Ministry, in its reply to the call by the Mother Country, had the people with it all along the line. He had read with amazement the Press cablegrams stating that a contract for the supply of meat to the army in South Africa had gone to tbe Argentine. Did the Home authorities need waking up? If they did, the colonies would have to leb them know with no uncertain voice that Australia and New Zealand could give them supplies ample in quantity and of the best quality. He had cabled to the Home Office pointing out the grave injustice which had been done by the action of the War Office regarding these meat contracts, and was anxiously awaiting a reply. He felt that there was evidently great ignorance of the powers of supply of the colonies at Home, and he trusted the foreign meat contracts would yet be cancelled.