NEW ZEALAND LAMB IN AMERICA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue XXXXI, 10 July 1920, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND LAMB IN AMERICA

The articles appearing in the Globe on tho arrival in New York of New Zealand lamb are to hand, and with characteristic headlines tho paper draws attention to its enterprise, and at the same time charges American firms with profiteering. The paper in one' of its articles states: "The.entire deal covers 36,000,000 pounds and involves an investment of more than 7,000,000 dollars. Its significance lies in the fact that with one blow it smashes and establishes a fixed figure for future operations for a contracted period of seven, months, covered by bonds and thp other fool-proof devices essential to steadiness and stability. There will be no daily fluctuations of price; no crazy ups and downs; no grasshopper leaps from low to high and Jback again, without rhyme or reason. The retail dealers with facilities for handling 1000 carcases or morti per month will buy their meat at the rock bottom wholesale price under' an agreement covered by b'pnd ngi to dispose of any of their purchases to speculators or other wholesalers whose interest in the Globe project is not and cannot be sympathetic or helpful, but whose hostility from the start must be counted upon to express itself in furious, persistent and perhaps criminal opposition."

The paper goes on to show that organised labor was keen to support the movement. "If the m^re announcement of the Globe's purpose has caused a 1>e * .action of such extraordinary character," the paper asks, "what will the continuous flow of fancy New Zealand lamb, and when the time comes also mutton, through tho stores of the Globe's retail friends bring aboujb? 1, far oij«,".say,s Mr A. W. McCann', the writer of the /irtj^le, --hardly know how to forecast the fu.turp, but, I t}pfl.'t, see how the profiteer will manage to survive the effects of this greatest of Globe movements."

And so the Globe continued for days with long articles denouncing the American trusts and extolling the advantages of the scheme initiated by the paper. New Zealand at least received a splendid advertisement for its lamb, and it seems clear that a big meat market is open to New Zealand in America if we desiro to_take advantage of it.