PROSPECTS OF THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE.
• Wellington, Augunt 26 At the annual meeting of the Wellington Expott Company to-day, the Hon B. Pharftzyn aaid. he had just returned from London, and ooald say there was a prospect of Improved pricen, &b people were getting over thoir prt j idices against frczen mutton. The New Zea'and mutton was gaining m favor, and was superior to the Argentine meat. One ciuee of the low prioeß was that recently a great deal of wheat land m England had been laid down In grass, owing to the low p ices of wheat, and cattle were being raised instead of wheat. The price of wh< at had reached its lowest, and when it went up ag«ln there would be less Lbs land put down m pasture, and that would help the colony. He believed that there was » obanoe of opening up a profitable trade with Antwerp, »s the meat on the Oontioent was generally very inferior.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1647, 27 August 1887, Page 2
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161PROSPECTS OF THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1647, 27 August 1887, Page 2
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