ARMY MEAT CONTRACTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7450, 26 May 1911, Page 6

ARMY MEAT CONTRACTS

NEW ZEALAND MAT SUPPLY UNITED STATES SOLDIERS. PRESS ASSOCTATTON’. GISBORNE, May 25. Mr Skelton, representative of tho New Zeland Producers Assoclo/tion at Home, is now en route to England. He writes to Mr Lysnar, of Gisborne, that the Hawaii Meat Co., Ltd., of Honolulu, intends tendering for tho simply of bool’ for tho United Slates Army. Tho contract will bo for a. quantity of from 50.000 to 70,000 pounds of beef •monthly for a teem of eleven months from August Ist. The manager of the companv ■desires to know tho lowest prices for this quantity in accordance with the specifications, delivered f.o.b. Auckland. The condHions aro to bo found in clauses 1 and 2 of the United States Army Brecifications. The lo?l branch of the New Zealand Producers Association, before whom the letter was read, decided to ask the general secretary at "Wellington to send the information to all tho branches. Mr Lysnar has sent a cable to Honolulu elating that the association is taking steps to notify producers ro that they can tender for ho supply. He believes it will bo tho forerunner of a good deal of other similar business for the Dominion.