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of mutton and lamb and over two million quarters of beef 

 were exported ; it will be mam- years before that record is 

 beaten. 



The constantly recurring labour troubles are alone sufficient 

 to handicap the industry. The big meat works of Queensland. 

 whence almost all the beef is exported, are continually 

 brought to a standstill by the despicable behaviour of the 

 unionists — I was going to say " the workers." but that is a 



Reserve Champion Aberdeen Angus Cow, Scotti; 

 Show, Queensland 

 Exhibited by Mr. G. C. Clark 



misnomer, they are not workers, and have little or no inten- 

 tion of being so. Backed up in all their demands by the present 

 Government in that State, they imagine they have only to go 

 far enough and the private companies will drop out and the 

 Government will take over the works. Then when that comes 

 about they believe they can loaf as much as they like, receive 

 fictitious wages, and the loss will be made good by taxation 

 and British loans. Such is the pitiable condition to-day of 

 one of the finest and largest sources of a big beef supply, 

 and, therefore, one is not at all sanguine of any immediate big 



