FROZEN MEAT TRADE IN QUEENSLAND.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1934, 3 September 1888, Page 3

FROZEN MEAT TRADE IN QUEENSLAND.

t The arrangements made In Qieonsland i for carrying on the frcs an meat trade - appear to be an improvement on the a system In New Zealand. An agreement 9 b*s been arrived at between the Central > Queensland Meat Export Company and i Messrs Tyaer and Co., of London, by ' which on and after March next the latter r firm will supply seven steamers of 7000 s tons regist -r to oonvey 800 tons of meat i monthly from the works of the company - on the Filzroy river at Rookbampten, to i London, at a consolidated charge of If d • per !b, Including killing, freezing, wrapl ping the oaroaaes, and insurance. The ) company -have arranged with a syndicate i of London butohera to take the whole of r the 250 tona of beef per month whloh it Is 3 proposed to send home In the steamers, a so that the oaroaaes will 1 go directly into 1 oonbumption without Involving the cost I of placing them In oooliog stores while 7 sales are made. It la expected that the ; same syndicate will take tbe 550 tons of ) mutton per month, which will make up r the total, oonajgnm&nta of 800 tons per t month. It has further been arranged that > the whole of tbe 250 tona of beef ehall be i supplied by the atockowners m the Rookhampton district at a certain sohedule t price, which will be higher or lover i according to the months of the year when > fat stock are plentiful or soaroe. The beef ' will bfl bought by the oompany and > shipped ob their aooount, as It would not I be worth while for the pastorallsts to I speolally consign a few beasts each on ; their own aooount.