FROZEN MEAT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11508, 14 February 1903, Page 6

FROZEN MEAT.

The shareholders of the Chrietchurch Me*t Company lave reason for congratulation, in the satisfactory recovery in the [financial position of the Company shown by the statement of account* submitted at yaterday'e meeting. The improvement in the Company's biwinew during the year in ■ also a gratifying: indication of increased confidence. The exhaustive raporte on that, boatinees aad on the, position and prospect* of the Company, which ■were delivered by the chairman and itymaging dkwotor of the Company, do not cdQ for xaawdb furthw then an expxe*

don of hope that still greater success tßasMilH attend the operations of the Meat Company and its neighbour at fart during the current year. !pui* one or two features, however, ia motion laid before tho meeting to w_a\&"|||§ brief reference may be mad*. We astral thai the proposal to mark all New land meat with one common brand.-whk__ ''■''$ haa found strong advocacy, especially i_... ~-J| tho North Island, finds no favour with the Till Meat Company. It would be strange, if fe did. As Mr M. C. Orbell pointed out, tha placing of a special brand upon New Ze*V,*'f| land mutton and lamb would deprecu£ '/M the' Talu* o£ Canterbury meat. Cant&.|*j£§_ bury made the name of New Zealarti,';#|? frown meat at Home -with iv piodact, it would now be aa unbusinesa-like to imperil that reputation by pooling oar >*M, bigh quality meat under one brand meat of admittedly coarser character. Tnl '«" question of new markets is always an in. jip wresting one, and Mr Qilbert And*t»Wvl§ showed that in South Africa we have aft "im opening lor a large quantity of class mutton. The fact that the Cape km fm the bad taste to prefer this class of total '~Jf is, it seems, a good tiling for Ctoterburjr,/Jf since it keeps it off the London market, and thus helps to maintain the price of ■ J*j| the better quality meat there. It fe oh- ~so vious from what Mr Anderson said our farmers can with profit, as soon a»f : -JI feed becomes cheaper, devote more atte*. rM tion to raising pigs, South Africa §M viding a good market for bacon and pork; "3Jj The tables of figures in which an set <il out the frozen meat exports of NaW "M:Zeoland and the Argentina, show that wt.|Sf still send away a much greater of mutton and lamb than our competitor; 3'_§| they also show tliat whereas tho shipments from the Argentine maintain aW& fairly, regular level, those from New Z»a7j|| Jand show a most astonishing difference, 48 indicating the need of more careful ngnfe' jgj tion if the market is not to be swamped-ill at times. There is much else ia the re- ! M porta which is worth perusal by all ift> ft mediately concerned in tie colony's gnat ££| industry. .. M

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