THE MEAT SLUMP

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 22 July 1909, Page 7

THE MEAT SLUMP

AUCKLAND, July 22.

Mr Stringer, manager of the Farmers' Freezing Company, interviewed about the reported fear in the meat market by Home buyers, said there might be something in it. It meant that the big trade depression in England had restricted purchases, while there had been an increase in the export of Argentine meat. Increased supply and decreased consumption necessarily meant a reduced consumption, and to this he attributed the decline. He stated that buyers in London were playing off one agent against another to reduce prices. He considered there should be one agent at Home for the whole colony.

Purser and Son's great clearing sale of J. E. Wilson's bankrupt stock is now in full swing 071 the premises, High street. Record bargains are announced for Saturday next. '