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New Zealand Mail, 15 February 1900, Page 21

Rumour has it (says the London correspondent of the “Australian Pastorahsts’ Review”) that “Air Acton-Adams is to advise the Belfast Company to make arrangements to open a. stall in the market here. Would such a step be wise in the case of a company doing c.i.f. business? By opening a stall and dealing -direct with market buyers a colonial meat shipper would, I suppose, be entering into competition with many of its best customers. The Riverstone Aleat Company certainly has a stall now, but I imagine that its business is not on all fours with the Belfast Company. I maintain that the opening of the Cardiff shop by the Christchurch Aleat Company was never a matter of competition with London salesmen, but rather a step which would help them by stimulating the country demand for prime Canterbury meat, but a stall in Smithfield Market is anothe>kettle, of fish altogether.”