THE MEAT MARKET.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 826, 3 October 1916, Page 5

THE MEAT MARKET.

EXPORT PRICES. 1, | ]. A RISE PROBABLE. 1 i | According to information received i by the Canterbury Frozen Meat Com-; j pany from its agents in London,l 'there is a probability, amounting j' i nearly to an assurance, that the Gov-j eminent price for meat shipped on! I Government account from the Domi-!-Inion will lie increased for the comingh !season. j Interviewed by a Sun representa- j ■ Itive this morning, Mr W. Murray,' ! general maanger of the New Zealand' i Refrigerating Company, stated that ihis company had no definite infor-C ' mation as to the probability of a rise, i, I Neither it nor any other company I could have definite information of J that kind until a rise actually occur-'!' j red, because it was purely a Govern- j | ment affair. But the probability of a : j rise was sensed. It was in the air as, | a result of the representations, which: I had been made to the Government . I by farmers and others, regarding the i inequalities of the present position, j IMr Murray remarked that higher i prices were being given in Australia,; hut only for a short period. The! I Imperial Government had bought, in, i Victoria, November mutton at sid 1f.0.b., and lamb at (lid f.o.b. These | represented an advance on the old! ; prices, while compared with the New; Zealand prices they were «d higher: 'on ordinary New Zealand lamb and; I mutton, and id higher than Canler-i i bury lamb and mutton. i I