ADDINGTON MARKETS.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 884, 7 May 1903, Page 3

ADDINGTON MARKETS.

By Tolegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, last night. At tho Addington market to-day there was an averago attendance of buyers. Fat cattle : 178 head were yarded, principally heifers and cows. Prices wero a trifle easier than last week’s. Steers .£6 10s to £9 17s, heifers £5 17s 6d to £9 10s, cows £5 10s to £9 17s fid, beef 25s to 29s per lOOlbs. Fat sheep : Tho entry was smaller than usual. Tho yarding included a good proportion of freezing wethers, which were firm at last week’s rates. Export buyers have reduced their limits for ewes, and prices suflerod in consequence in respect to freezing lines, but for best butcher’s sorts competition was keener than usual. Best freezing wethers 17s 6d to 20s 4d, lighter 15s 8:1 to 17s, forward wethers 15s to 15s 10s, butcher’s ewes 9s 6d to 17s, froezing ewos 14s to 14s 9d. Fat lambs : About 1500 woro ponnod, the quality being rather bettor than usual, aud prices were firmer than in the previous week. Frcez.'l's lls to 14s 6d, tegs 14s lOd to 15s, butchers' 9s to 13s 7d, a few extra tegs 17s fid. Pigs : There was rather a small entry of pigs, and a fair sale took placo, though prices for porkers were easier. Baconers brought from 43s to 65s 6d, equal to 5d per lb ; poikers, 30s to 395, equal to 5d per lb ; stores 20s to 265, small lls to 18s, weaners 7s fid to 12s.

Complaints still being received as lo meal, other than New Zealand meat being sold as such, the AgentGeneral has just issued a circular of warning. In this, Mr Reeves says the deliberate manner in which many butchers throughout this country sell as “ New Zealand ” meat that has not been produced in the colony—necessitating steps being taken by prosecution to expose the fraud—has determined him to draw the attention of consumers to this practise. While such action on the part of butchers might he accepted as a very high compliment to the merits of New Zealand meat, by thus acknowledging Us superiority, the Agent-Gener-al thinks it only right that he should endeavor to prevent damage to the New Zealand meat trade by the substitution of an inferior article, and that lie should guard the interests of consumers who were anxious to be supplied with the genuine article against the loss they sustain through the action of unscrupulous traders. In order to protect themselves against inferior meat Iroui other parts oi t lie world being palmed off on them as. “ New Zealand, ’ the Agent-General suggests to consumers to ask, when making purchases of New Zealand meal, that they . he supplied by the vendor at the time of sale with an invoice clearly indicating that the meat with which they are supplied is New Zealand. A false invoice issued by a vendoi rendets him liable to prosecution and heavy line under the Merchandise Marks Act.

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