ALIENS IN SMITH FIELD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11644, 4 May 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)

ALIENS IN SMITH FIELD.

ENGLISH SALESMEN TAKE THE INVASION CALMLY. The Smithfield meat salesmen are said to be aggrieved at the Corporation letting the shops in the market to foreigners. If this grievance exists Smithfield bears it very philosophically. i Said one straw-hatted salesman, smoking his pipe contentedly among groves of beef: — ~ "Of the 400 shops in the market about 30 are held by the big American companies, such fas Eastmans and Armour. This means that the Americans sell their meat through their own shops instead of through the English salesmen, as formerly. Seme of the salesmen arc sine at losing the commission they used to make by 'selling the American moat. ">.o, we have not made any representations to the Corporation. We" grumble instead—the Englishman's privilege. "After all/there are two sides to the question. Without America most of the English public would never taste beef. England doesn't produce half enough." Mr. Edward Hart, of Messrs. J. T. Hart and Sons, one of the hading firms in the market, rem irked :--- "The cumin.: of the Americans has done us on harm. They pay good prices for the business of the English salesmen whom they buy tit. As to Dutch competition, there is none. The stopping of the importation of. live cattle killed the Dutch trade."