AMERICANS WANT MEAT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15274, 23 July 1920, Page 3

AMERICANS WANT MEAT.

. ♦ - ■■■ • : . '■■: - Sir vu _ r LONDON, July 21; . bir Ihomas. Mackenzie hag received Trust 1 op * oa }}? n to the fleat ' A PLKA FOR ARitOCR AND 00 Mr T^ EI f T S HU , BCH ' "<**• toygreat Iqss if -any- restrictions were placed '" on competition, especially as in£p£d£t , competition .was desired to be allowed to ' .■Jgerato.to the direct benefit of pSuW Th« 6 n \ arkefc - At a time like -the .present, when ordinary buyers for' . the London • market were hesitating as 1 - to their policy l-egarding- the future •• S uch n \ that under d£ sion was a n - veritable godsend to Zealand. ThejatabUify of finance al , i.v as meat was concerned, would be' assured ovqr a very Critical period, if' this market, by the way, .was^tapped •* th ? , lm Poruil authorities themseTyes were left open m New Zealamd. This policy of restriction, if followed, would, tend to still further discourage the prac- " tical fanner, and if this competition were not to*e allowed on the markets, then lie felt that a very grave- responsibility would rest Aipon the Government. - Unless the price of Dominion produce can be Tip to its present standard, a man .on the land cannot hope to meet w» -extra- changes aiid' • taxation imposed ; on. him- as a result of post-war conditions. Hie firm was a direct buyer oil its own account, and therefore waa ' on quite a different footing from those buying an communion only, the latter class of buy* ers bemg m the same position as regards the prices made by New Zealand meat as land .agents, -would: be , when- buying an* selling fami lands, working solely on a cfommission basis. Mr. Rutherford maintained that the difference between . the commission priqo given and that ulti- . matelv realised on the American market should come to the Dominion, direct, insteak:! of to the middleman' at -Home.- — Herald Special. .