MEAT INDUSTRY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 18 March 1915, Page 8

MEAT INDUSTRY.

CANTERBURY FARMERS' MANIFESTO. BT TELEGKAPH—I'RESS ASSOCIATION. CPIRISTCHURCH, March 18. A manifesto issued by the executive of the North Canterbury Farmers' Union dealing with the "frozen meat trouble says that after comparing what it considers fair values with the prices given by exporters, it is of opinion that the farmers are being exploited, and makes a strong appeal to Canterbury farmers to hold their stocks firmly for advanced prices. If farmers decline to accept less than 6fd for prime lambs the export buyer must either give farmers that price or he cannot carry out his contract to fill space with freezing companies, and if the exporters cannot fill the space then space will be left for farmers, and tney will then secure the prices for lamb's which they ask.