The value of the meat works to the farmers in the Patea district is (says the Press), being strikingly shown since the works were burnt down. Fat cows' have depreciated already some £2 in value, -whilst bulls have dropped in price by some 355. One well-known dealer bought a line of bulls a few days prior to the works being destroyed, and is said to stand to lose something, like £60 through the drop in prices, owing to the works not being able to deal with the animals.
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Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 24 February 1914, Page 3
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