The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 13, 1886. MEAT AND CATTLE EXPORT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1406, 13 November 1886, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 13, 1886. MEAT AND CATTLE EXPORT.

We learn from a northern exchange that a gentleman resident at Wanganui, who has recently returned from a trip to the Old Country, states that during a stroll in London he came across a butcher’s shop in which were ticketed up some fine carcases, marked New Zealand mutton. Making inquiries as to the price, he ascertained that it sold from downwards, and this when cargoes were bringing from 3}£d to 4d per lb. in London. There must (remarks our contemporary) be an enormous profit to some middlemen which should go to the seller. At the lime the visit alluded to was made the meat-seller said he could not get anything like enough of the mutton. Surely there is an indication here of the necessity for some combined and organised effort to place our frozen meat trade on a better footing. It is admitted on all hands that no country in the world can supply the Home market with meat of equal quality with that produced on New Zealand pastures, and there is, we are satisfied, practically no limit to the demand. All that is wanted is the securing of a good paying price, and while the sum paid by the consumer ranges up to surely there must be a screw loose somewhere when the figure obtained by the shipper is only from t° What is wanted is that there should be a central agency in London, managed by a representative of the New Zealand shippers, who should enter into some co-operative organisation. The London Agency should have its own cold storage and its own retailing establishments. Sales to consumers should only be made for cash, and were this the case mutton and beef could be always supplied to the consumer at a trifle under market rates for home-grown meat, would command a ready sale, and the shipper would get the full proceeds less only the expenses of the Agency, which would represent only a small per-centage upon the gross return. Under such a system as this we think the New Zealand shipper would ensure at the least a net result of 6d per lb, and were that the case an enormous impetus would be given to the pastoral industry. The subject is one which deserves the earnest consideration of our flockowners and farmers generally and might well be taken up by our Chambers of Commerce. But the foregoing is not the onlyopening for enterprise. We have recently shown that there might be a wide extension of our export of butter to India, China, and elsewhere, if only the matter were gone into systematically and upon proper methods, and now there appears to be also every prospect of the speedy establishment of a large export trade in live cattle between New Zealand and New South Wales. On the 15th of September last certain gentlemen went from Taranaki to Sydney with a shipment of cattle, and we learn from the Herald that they have returned “ in high spirits as to the future prospects of trade between Sydney and New Plymouth. It is understood that they are fully convinced that a market exists for every class of our produce. There will be a very large demand for fat cattle during the winter time. This is most satisfactory, for during the winter time the Taranaki cattle are in their best condition. The Auckland market at that time is generally glutted and prices are low. Jt is also understood that a ship owner in Sydney contemplates putting on a special steamer for this trade. The steamer would carry about 300 cattle, and would make the Taranaki trade a speciality.” This is highly satisfactory, for the establishment of a large trade wMi Sydney will benefit not Taranaki only but all the other cattleproducing districts in the colony, SANDER and SONS’ EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.—Cure of Skin Diseases. Invercargill, N.Z., 3rd of July, 1880- Messrs Sander and Sons, Sandhurst: —Gentlemen.—Having suffered from eczema (a skin disease which is very prevalent in this colony) for about nine years, I had consulted numerous medical men here and in Australia, and had taken arsenic, strychnine, iodide of potassium, etc., internally, and had used preparations of zinc and lead remedies known to the faculty, and what between travelling,' doctors’ and druggists’ tplls, bad spent a small fortune, almost, if not Wholly, without result?, except to injure my oopatitutiop. paring'a recent visit to Hokitika I was recommended to try your Extract Eucalyptus Globulus by a brother who bsd experienced great benefit from it m alleviating a very severe cold, and po less to roy surprise than satisfaction, I found the disease which troubled ms go Jopg was conquered, and the skin resumed Us normaloopaitjoo. This was effected by the external use of less than two two-ounce bottles. Yours, eto, Signed John H. Kerr, Manager Union Bank, ot Australia, Limited.—(Advt.)