QUEENSLAND BEEF
EQUALITY OF TREATMENT. LONDON, August 20. The Hon. J. Af. Hunter, Agent-general for Queensland, interviewed by a meat trade journal, said that the present serious condition in the beef trade must be ended or mended quickly. It was impossible for the industry to stand the present losses. The preference which the trade and the consuming public were showing for Argentine beef reflected no credit on their health or their heads. Prior to the war Argentine and Queensland beef sold at the same price. Now Queensland beef was 3d per lb below Argentine beef. The only apparent reason ■was that Australia had been self-sacrific-ing enough to allow the army to have meat during the war. There was no complaint regarding the quality of Queensland meat, which was subject to the same rigid Government inspection. Australia gave British goods a preference of 12.5 percent., and was entitled at least to equality of treatment with foreign traders.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3519, 23 August 1921, Page 19
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156QUEENSLAND BEEF Otago Witness, Issue 3519, 23 August 1921, Page 19
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