MEAT TRADE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 4 July 1921, Page 5

MEAT TRADE

EMPIRE'S ENEMIES

POWERFUL AGENCIES IN

LONDON.

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, July 3.

Mr W. M. Hughes, speaking at the Cold Storage Association dinner, said: "There are powerful agencies .at work ■within this city whose object it is to deal a deadly blow 'at the Empire and who desire to give outsiders trade which ought to belong to the Empire. The Dominions are the best customers Britain has and Britain ought. to be their best customers. The Dominions have a right to expect in this cradle of their race that they should find friends and that preference which is rooted in the hearts of the people."

Mr W. F. Massey said that,since 1882 New. Zealand was unbeaten as an exporter of lamb and mutton to Europe. Between 1882 and 1920 New Zealand contributed nearly half , Britain's importation of mutton and lam 6, outrivalling Australia and the Argerijtine.

The latest meat quotations are: Sheep—South American, heavy, 6|d Lamb—South American, heavy, lid.

Beef—Frozen New Zealand; fores 3Jd, hinds sid; Australian fores 3^d, hinds Bid; Argentine, fores 4|d, hinds 9d;, chilled Argentine fores s*d, hinds 10£ d; Uruguay fores sd,' hinds 9£<i.