LAMBS FOR EXPORT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12817, 17 March 1905, Page 3

LAMBS FOR EXPORT.

[by TKr.BGftAfH. —OWN" CORRESPONDENT.]

j CiiKiSTCHtrRCH, Thursday. The short supplies in the Canterbury district of sheep and lambs for freezing hava led to the local companies deciding to continue the summer freezing rates till May '}$ 21, after which date winter rates, differing slightly from the winter rates of last year, , will be charged. The shortage of supplies ;; ; | is, however, only on© aspect of the question, ; i ii a more serious one being the disinclination; " vf of farmers to sell lambs, even at the highly satisfactory prices now being realised. Mr. Gilbert Anderson, managing director of the Christ-church Meat Company, has given to a press representative his opinions of the present state of the trade. " The prices fanners am giving just now for stores," he remarked, "are not warranted when the large number of this class of sheep available from ' other districts is remembered. Unless farmers are prepared to hold their stock for next year, and divide their losses between wool and mutton, it is suicidal on. the part of the J ' 1 ir'! farmer to hold his lambs with the view V making thm tegs (lambs over 42lfc .in r weight), for-iiijbich there is'iMily a Jwry-vX.fil limited trade.'' - V; Lxk