FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1837, 10 May 1888, Page 3

FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

A gentleman who is convereant with the frozen moat trade has given it as his opinion that beef m considerable quan ities will bo exported from the Oainaru district before long. Already a number | of the principal graziers have expressed their intention of sending their fat sto k Hume instead of to DunecHn and to otbei maikets whare the price of fat cattle ie so unremunerativ' , Again, the continued low price of New Zealand mutton m the Home market has given rise to much speculation among shippers, and it ie that the middle men aro them selves the agents, and are m. league with the butchers m rigging the markets. The result is therefore that while first ciass New Zealand mutton ia sold as English corn fed. River Plite and New Zealand interior alone represent our beat consignments. A settler who has interested himself largely m the matter states that recently a ped igogua m Canterbury, who has a pencliant for farming, shipped Home, through the Now Zealand Kel'rigerating Company, some 27 carcases of mutton, Haviug a friend m the Old Country, he requested him to look after his interests, which he did, with a satisfactory result to the shipper, the account sales, with draft, being duly forwarded by the agents acting for the Kefrigerating Oompany. Subse quently further account sales were scut to tho schoolmaster, with the intimation that a mistake had been made when forwarding the first, and that, instead of his consignment realising co much, the amount due to him wae some £9 less, and requesting a refund of that sum. Believing that an' uujuat demaud was being made upon him, and not being satisfied with tho particulars set forth m tho second account sales, which did not Bhow the price per lb realised lor tho mutton, he got the mutter brought before the Directors of the iiefrigerating Company m Dunedin, who, our informant states, m turn coinmuni cated with thosa acting as agents for tiiein m the Old Country, the result being that the agency wus cancelled. — Uatnaiu paper. i