THE MEAT EXPORT TRADE.
AN OPTIMISTIC NOTE.
[BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.!
CHBisTcmmcii, Wednesday. In his speech at the annual meeting of the British-New Zealand Meat Company today M'r. M. C. Orbell (chairman) said that from what he had heard and read lately, a pessimistic feeling in rogard to future prices had taken possession of some' Canterbury people. The old bogey had been again brought forward, and fears had been expressed that Australia and the Argentine were going to play havoc with the New Zealand moat trade. He' did not believe it, and never had believed it, and he still believed that a remunerative market would always be found for whatever quantity might come forward. It was only a question of time, and that not a very long one, before the Continent, with its huge population, would be a consumer. The agrarian interests were in power at present, but the mutses were becoming day bv day more alive to their strength, and were not going to pay lOd and Is 3d per lb for meat when their neighbours could obtain it for half that price. .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14000, 4 March 1909, Page 6
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183THE MEAT EXPORT TRADE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14000, 4 March 1909, Page 6
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