STATEMENT BY VESTEY’S

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11663, 30 October 1923, Page 6

STATEMENT BY VESTEY’S

KILLING ON OWNER'S ACCOUNT REPLY BY POVERTY BAY COMPANY. Per Press Association. GISBORNE, October 29. Regarding the letter from the representative of Vesfcey’s, read by the president of the Farmers’ Union at the executive meeting at Wellington and addressed to the general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand, which ntated that the Taruheru Works are ■open at all times to farmers for killing and freeziiig stock, and had they secured the Waipaoa Works it was their intention to caiTy on the same procedure, the directors of the Poverty Bay Far mers’ Meat Company desire to draw public attention to their contention lhat in the past Vestey’s had not always allowed freezing on owners’ account at the Taruheru Works. EX-EMPLOYEE’S LETTER,

The director® have received the following unsolicited letter from one of Vestey’s late pickers and buyers of fat vtock for Taruheru Works: “For your information I may state that up to about 1920 I was picking sheep for Nel son Bros. (Vestey’B) for their Taruheru Works at Gisborne, and in tho course of my duties I had to negotiate for the purchase of sheep. During the last year I operated my instructions were that the company would not allow ttock to be put through on owners’ account, but that they would either buy them right out or they would have to go through wliat is called the consolidated rate, which makes the works the solo agents and sellers of the meat, and they consequently control the sale of it at the English end.” This letter, say the directors, requires no comment.