The Akaroa Mail. FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1882. FROZEN MEAT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 638, 25 August 1882, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail. FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1882. FROZEN MEAT.

.A Chbistchurcu contemporary, speaking of tbe project for establishing a Frozen Meat Company here, says :—

" The Peninsula is, we are glad to learn, likely to have ihe head-quarters of a Frozen Bleat Company established there. The idea is spread ing, and is received by everyone with the warmest favor. Large sheep owners have promised to give the movement all the support in their power, nnd a large meeting has been ca'.lcd to <:ousidcr the matter. Of tho advantages to tho district which the opening of such an industry will confer, it is impossible to say too much. Not only will it be a source of profit to the projectors, but it will also furnish employment for much surplus labor. Tho people of the old country will also be benefited by tho trade, for competition is the soul of business, and it will lead to cheaper rates at homo. The present purchaser of the comparatively few shipments which are being sent will no longer be able to monopolise tho trade, for as the number of shipments increases by *he expansion of the industry in this country, more purchisers "will be found in the Homo ma'kots, and as a matter of course their profits will be reduced by the consequent increase of competition, and tho peoplo will lie tho gainers. In this country there is every probibility of the trade assuming such large proportions thai a direct line of steamers will he the inevitable ou!com<\ This is a consummation devoutly to be wished, for not only will it prove a mine of wo dth to the cnterpri.-irrjf companies engaged, but it will u'so provi lo labor for the unemployed of this country, and afford the old world an abundance of that which wo can well spare them."

Jtfo one can help agreeing with these «-fem**rt:B, which are clear, catholic, and to th© point. Whilst again writing on thia ftll-importatii subject, it is perhaps as well to mention an idea, in connection with the subject, tbat appears to be tenable. It is that ships, whilst taking on board the frozon carcasses and tho d dry produce, could also be loading grain brought from Timaru in coasting steamers, as advocated,by us in a former article. It ft needless''to 'recapitulate hero till that was then said on the subject, but the fact of the difference in insurance, absence of harbor dues, good offing for the ships when sailing, and the comparative c/icapnc.ss of wat-r carriage to land carriage, were the principal points urged in its favor. As we said then, we believe the Timaru breakwater Will bo eventually suffieir-nt for the shelter of large vessels, but till tli-n we believe it would bo to the advantage of the people of South Canterbury t■> use our port ins'.ead of Lyttelton,