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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 25, 30 January 1902, Page 3

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australia^^REßS. PER PRESS Beceived^^^^^Hn. It is the War Office's maximum require-ments-offrozen meVot iiouth Africa are 30,000 quarters <n beef and 12,000 sheep. This represents jthree-fifths of the wbo'e contract, the twofifths stock. | ' Tbe military authoritjfes; in South Africa some time ago forwarded direct to Mr Philp and Mr Sedllon tender forms and specifications o tl)e contract. The War Office (Farly in ijabuary sent forms to the Agents-Geierkl, then at Mr Copeland's urgent, iistknee ssked Mr Philp to supply New Wales and Victoria with forms. ; | i Mr Copeland submitted a lender for 3000 tons of frozen beef and mutton monthly for a year at, 4d j'er pound delivered in South Africa.! Tbis is sufficient to supply 220,000 trapps with lib cf meat per day. Tbis independent of a second tended for 20,000 shetp at 3fd per pound, spread over six or twelve months. j Three VictorianJjenderK were submitted, one for or 50,0001bs poun<l, and another for of beef and 24,000 pound, while a third of beef at 4|d and at 3d, deliveied monthly^^^^H Sp< abing at a Liberal gathHkg tlia evening the Premier d< it 1 was ot.vious someone hud in ' regard to tV>e acc-ptanc;- of meat contractf, and he had j righly in drawing pointjed to, it. If the Press cables tenders had been callell conditions, acd totally jopp n tions had be»n He I to sty the Government was give th» people of the Mother and British manufacturers a tiwl tariff, and also to give a British manufactured gpods British shirs. '