THE MEAT INDUSTRY.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13783, 2 June 1915, Page 2

THE MEAT INDUSTRY.

(United Press Association.]

, Christohurch, June 1. The president of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce yesterday sent the following iotkw to the Prime Minister: —"Many small farmers are in serious plight., owing to having fat lambs and".sheep on" hand which they are. unable-to sell or freeze, owing to the congestion at the freezing works. Swedes are -ifFeriris: from Southland at' 30s-to £2 per ton on trucks, and would didlv he purdnsed hero but for the railage, which makes the cost prohibitive Could your Department give any relief to local farmers by rebating the whole.or.a.portKln of the railage, to enable them ta replace the winter fooct already consumed?-' [