MEAT FOR AMERICA

Timaru Herald, Issue 170308, 2 September 1920, Page 2

MEAT FOR AMERICA

ANOTHER BIG SALE.', OVER HALF A MILLION CARCASES. _ Advice has lately been received (says tiie '•Doriunion') of aduitaouai quanti-' ties of mutton and lamb having oeeu sold by tno imperial Uovernmeut for shipment to the United States. Tuis involves a sale of slightly over half a million carcases, divided up anvjugso eighteen different buyers and sii.eadover three shipments. j Of tliis total only. 30,000 carcases' have been sold to the agents acting on behalf of Armour and Company, virile among the other buyers are representatives of both British and American firms, a small quantity goiug to the firm known as.the Morris Beet Company. Of the remainder only one firm is shown in American ■ Government reports as being associated with the Trust firms. i This certainly suggests very strongly that a market is available in America for New Zealand mutton, and especially lamb, quite independent of purchases made by Armour and Company or other of -the big Trust firms.' and that it would be wrong to assume that New Zealand mutton and lamb cannot be sold in America except through their agency. It must be borne in mind that the powerful American companies (known as the ''Big Five") have been severely handled by their own Government just lately, and'-'hat the United -States Government doubtless has a full appreciation of the value of free and open trading svithin its own borders.