FROZEN MEAT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1649, 30 August 1887, Page 2

FROZEN MEAT.

j The "Ljttelton Times " Home correipondent says : —Mr Brown harbean making a toar throughout the Northern and , : Midland Ooantieo, calling at the chief I centres of population, with a yiew to, effeotlng arrangements for a direct sapply of frozen ma tton to the large batoheri of., the districts. Praotleally Mr Brown half completed his preparations for establishing three depots In London,. Liverpool, and G'aßgoT, fecm whioh botoberi m tht adjoining dlstriots will be able to reoelve sap plies of meat twice a week, they will undertake to dispose of a oertaift fixed minimum, and will pay an average prloe of 5d per 1b for mutton and a penny or twopence more per lb for lamb. Then prlcea, Mr Brown declares, will give m distinct advantage to conßlgnori, for they will not have to pay out of them the various obarges to middlemen, agenti, salesmen, and others, which obtain uuder the present system. He estimate! that the oontraots he had entered into will" abiorb something like ten thousand oarcasea a week, and of course he entertains hope that the trade will develop. When he geti back to New Zealand he will arrange with the refrigerating companies In Otago, Canterbury, and Napier, to supply the requisite, number of car* caeis, .