During the past twelve months the receipts of the hgiiiont farmers' Union amounted to .£2131 8s id. or nearly JtiOO le-s than the previous year. This is duo in a great; measure to slackness in stock sale-., caused chiefly by an over supply of fat cattle, for which there has been no adequate demand in the Colony, and the depressed tho London beef market has prevented holders from shipping Home, except at a loss. It is, however', 'confidently hoped that, with the Waitara Freezing W<:rks now firmly established and an improved invention for thawing meat, at no distant date a bett-er state of things will exist,
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1291, 26 November 1896, Page 27
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106Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 1291, 26 November 1896, Page 27
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