A LONDON BUTCHER'S OPINION OF THE FIRST ARRIVAL OF NEW ZEALAND MUTTON.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 634, 11 August 1882, Page 2

A LONDON BUTCHER'S OPINION OF THE FIRST ARRIVAL OF NEW ZEALAND MUTTON.

The following letter has been addressed to the New Zealand Times, Wellington :— Sir, Ist. It is the best of any frozen meat over brought into London, for the followreaeons^ —It is the least stained, there is no superfluity of fat, it is not frozen hard. 2nd. It has fetched the highest price of any mutton yet imported. Tho sheep have fetched on an average 6£d per ft, or slightly over, after making allowance for damaged ones. Lunite have fetched 8d and 9d per lb. 3rd. The consignee? should hate some one belonging to the Company in the market to keep check on the Agonts and salesman's clerks, for the expenses of the salesmen are very heavy, several not Jess than £60 per week. 4th. This is the sple caiise of the American senders going bankrupt, in my opinion ; and as they have thoroughly established the frozen meat trade, and have had to bear the brunt of the prejudices of the people—which 1 can assure you was not a little—the New Zealand Companies have nothing to do but to walk into a good payable claim which has been abandoned for the want of plant, and so reap the heaviest dividends a Company ever paid in this line of business. I am, etc., Henky Alfred Kinqwem,, Broadway, Westminster, 31et May, 1882.