NEW ZEALAND MEAT.
HOW TRADE IS LOST. WELLINGTON, August 12. The Acting-Premier has boei advised by a leading firm in the colony that cable advioos have been received by this firm calling tlte attention of sheep-growera to the desirableness, when they have meat for export, of not quoting beyond its value. Th« firm's advise ra state that a large Australian buyer who was recently purchasing meat in Now Zealand for export to the Cape found it so difßeiilt to do business in this colony that he has gone to the Argentine for supplies.
A cablegram received from tlie AgentKPneral by Sir J. G. Ward sets out thafc, by Mr Reeves's direction, an English bufcel»er had been prosecuted and hea-uly fined for having- sold River Plate mutton as New Zealand. An important arlmitskm wna made by the defendant that 99 out of ev*-ry hundred butchers call all frozen muUoa Xew Zealand grown.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2527, 20 August 1902, Page 8
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151NEW ZEALAND MEAT. Otago Witness, Issue 2527, 20 August 1902, Page 8
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