THE AUCKLAND MEAT TRADE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2043, 11 August 1885, Page 2

THE AUCKLAND MEAT TRADE.

ro rnK KDiroiu Sm, — After many yeais of unintcuupted prospenty and enormous profits tlio Auckland butchers .it List hnd themselves in a tight place, and can anything inoie laughable be conceived than tli.it they should appeal to the fanners for help. By the lepoitof the public meeting in Hamilton on Wednesday last I noticed that Mr Forrest read a letter emanating fiom the Auckland Butchers' Association, asking the N.N.Z. Farmers' Coopoiativc Association to unite with them to provide a remedy for the low price of moat in Auckland. I can haidly think the meeting considered the letter soiiously. The butcher asking the fanner to cooperate ! Surely a great change mint have taken place to have brought about such api "position. For what put pose do the butchers demro co-opeiation ; is it in tho interest of the farmer ? The suggestion in too palpably thm to ducuis, and I wonder thnt the Butcheis' Association nhould havo committed themselves m making overtiuos of this kind to the Farmers' Co-operative Association. Make no mistake, it is not the low price of meat that now tumbles the Auckland Butchers' Association, but the reduced proht. Howcvei, I may be doing the butchers an injustice. To test tha i Hincority of their desire for co-operation an J to give them an oppoitunity of proving tho genuine interest they have now developed in regard to the Waikato farming community, I will suggest that as there is every piobability of a Mont Tinning Factory being Htaited in Waikato, let the butchers co-operate -with tho Waiknto fanners to get this established. This i«i the remedy sought for, about which th« Auckland Butcheis' Association have latrly expressed then anxiety. If they enter heartily into tho hcheme, they have it in their powor to relievo tho piopowed fact my of one of itn gicatest difticultteH, the distiibution of thn pnme poitions of tho bullock. Timo will prove to what extent the Auckland butchers can be depended upon to amist the farmer m providing a remedy against having to dispose of boof at loss than it costs to pioducc.— l am, <fee, SEfi'LfcK.