MISREPRESENTATION

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7847, 8 July 1911, Page 2

MISREPRESENTATION

UNFAIR BUSINESS METHODS. Agricultural writers in some of the best English papers confess that much of our frozen meat is bought at llcino Ixs be rtbailod as Home-grown. It appears ab-o I hat our lamb ami mutton aro finding fheir way --arc ami more into tho villaacs ami country districts where they have not reached before. The dcniand for thorn is therefore increasing. The low prices of 1900 helped our meat into new* channels, and stimulated the demand for it. The benefit of that fact has since been felt by the way it lias steadily cold throughout the 1910 and the present sdasens. The prospects in London have improved a .Rood doul during tho past week cr two, judging by Die higher prices that are now ireing realised for lamb l . Those who have shipped Home will reap the benefit oi this rise. The pitv of if: is that we arc not able to finish* them off . in each primo condition as we would like, .and this fact mint tell against us considerably this season. The repeated cablegrams that Canterbury lamb is in short supriv. and North island lambs are plentiful, load to the supposition that a good many of our inferior Canterbury lambs arc being shipped Home as Island.—E sc h an ge.