AUSTRALIAN MEAT FOR SWITZERLAND.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12710, 22 March 1911, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN MEAT FOR SWITZERLAND.

THE NEED FOR NEW MARKETS

EXPLANATION OF LOW PRICES

(United Pi ess Association .—Copyright.*

Received March 21, 9.30 p.m

SYDNEY, ■March" 21

The fiist parcel of froz2n mutt<:h from Australia to Switzsrland is baing .shipped by the steamer Essex, tlie Swiss authorities having given pec-mission for its ainpni'tation. Tlie shipment consists of 500 specially selected cs'rcn.sGS, which will Ik- sent via London and Antwerp by the Cclcnial Moat Export Co.

Mr Hughes, managing director of the company, is urging tli3 importance <;f opening ne-w markets, a1? a single market icj easily ov?r .supplied, thu.s making it e.isy to manipulate prices below a profitable shipping level. Referring to tho present l^w prices in London, Mr Hughes suggested that they were ■pessibly due to Home distribut^.r.s anti'cipnting early large supplies of Aiutra-, lian me jat .as a result of the good season, bv.t mora likely the depression was due to methods adopted by Americans, who captured 70 per cent, of the Argentiino tradv 1, their motto being "Fir.sfc .■pol t':: r.rirket at t!i? c n ;;in'!ig centre.- then t!:e censumer and producer will be at your mercy."