MEAT EXPORTS.

Wairarapa Age, 11 August 1928, Page 5

MEAT EXPORTS.

THE S>NSIGNMENT POLICY Some interesting remarks on the disinclination of farmers to send their lambs Home on consignment were made in a letter from the Christchur< h representative of Messrs Henry 8. Fitter and Sons which camo before the Masterton A. and P. Association yesterday. After acknowledging ndvice of the names of winners at the last the challenge cup® and medal® presented by the firm, the letter continued: “It seems that the local idea of the best lamb and teg and the London are widely divergent. (1 Can you not induce your .growers to freeze more on their own account? My firm keep giving these prizes each, year, but it is rare for them to get a consignment from a grower and it seems a thankless task to teM people what is the best for the London market, and they get the benefit of it without any reti ra to the people that told them what to do to get the better results.” Commenting on the above letter and another from the Waingp.wa Company, which showed that the net return on lambs seat Home from the Show was £1 13-s» per head, Mr. G. H. Perry said that thi® was a better price than had been obtained locally, and that the policy of consignment seemed to be worth considering. Another member said that the local prices were not far behind that above mentioned. Mr. D. Ogilvy said that the local prices were good. They were too much for the butcher. He added that the Ipmbs which went Home from the Show were super lambs.

Mr. Perry said that the super iambs were the milk lambs which were sent away early.