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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15321, 17 September 1920, Page 5

I While the Government is compellini 1 Iho British v peoplo to oat "lamb" : that i < fast beeonmlg uiipal.itnblo as tin* resul »f 'being, m cold storage for two yeai*, ■ 'or 'over; it is selling fresh-killed priim I- -Now Zealand Jamb m the United Statb ' at a cost much lower thaw the exorbitnji . price \he people here have to pay. Bes quality, newly-killed 'lamb, is being shir) [ ped by i tlie British Government direc trom New : Zealan d' to- America at 7_d'pe: , ,1b f.Orh. -New- Zealand, which, allowrnj , ,*Ah* cost' pf freightage, means that thi, , select meat coats lOd per lb wholesale . >y the time it reaches the States. Hen '•the price is 10di per lb^wholesalo fo: .*tale mutton-, and Is Id per lb wholesali ,for ''lanib'' kille*d ! tU*o years ago. Hoy long is the p'ublib. going to stand thi . indefensible and -costly policy of . tin [ "Government Why should staje meat bi good enough for the Y people here am prune New Zealand lamb.be reserved foi ' America?— London Daily Express. \ REMEMBER. 'THE DATE '' Get your bags together; there's n< time to waste if you intend to enter foi , tho next Gerstena Competition, closing •September 30th. Bags must bo ia th< hands of the Proprietor of Gereteiit Foods Company, .Christchurch, on'or'be fore that date. As before, each com petitor will be advised of the result, anc tho pi'ize-list will appear m the prineipo U6" about the middle of October