NEW MARKETS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 209, 28 May 1908, Page 3

NEW MARKETS.

AC MEAT-EATERS. •/. POSSIBILITIES - FOR CONTINENTAL TRADE. ( (bi lEr.feGKArn.—special correspondent.) . ■ Feilding, May 27. '•: iA'J&wnieit. of 4 vast interest to past oralists / *as made by Mr. Gilruth,'Chief Government • Veterinarian, ,to the-Farmers'; TJnioii .Con-foronoo;.horo,.tq-night. Ho ' said ho-had received papers from Paris-concerniiig the Rie-. fngeration ■ Congress there. At a , meeting of ■:>'jj?,which/ -dealtwith application of i freezing to, food supplies, :ai speech,.was de- ■' Jivered. by .the '.Chairman,; Dr/- Gau'tier, Presi- - dent of- tho French' Academy .of Medicine, and therefore tho highest', medical authority .in -France.:,. The speech. was delivered to graziers, butchers,: and .everyljckly, interested y in the food supplies of France. /Dr. Gautier pointed out that for every "four pounds /of meat . which the French people ato per herd per , annum, the .British pooplo ato six, and ;■>'' that,vfnrtheri|ibre,\thisiwas iriot due' to the, fact t'iat not ilikei meat, ~be-' : cause,.for'e'very:yfour : poujids .that the French people., ate as a whole, the .people of Pans ate. nine. This was simply: because -they could it. ' He 'therefore' 'urged that, France,should consider the advisability of .. altering • her /tariff, so . .that frozen/: meats' should :bo 'admitted free: This, he said; would not interfere with tho consumption of the home-grown material, but ltwas required m order to, allow the peoplo to get a suffi..cifjit meat supply..,: Dr. Gautier also''said 'hownecessaryvit/was /that,;:.'this material" s should -be of:' good ; quality, which would nourish them well, and also that it was 111 every /way healthy. New could /guarantee both ,those_" points. Mi;. 1 ' Gilruth : ;' saM' h'e saw. to; that'himself, arid he: did not , always have, legal authority for 'it- either, but. , ' they., were determined there should be 110 in-' fenor meat sent out of tho country, and: as for unhealthy, meat, nono ,w£s allowed out, / . and /for'. that i there was full legalauthority. ' It .was being "said that Arcehtino was bccom- ' ing: a bjg,competitor/so that.' if' the : mprkots of Europo were gomg to bo thrown open ; it; . would ,enlarge tlie-:scopo for. .'all.. "Ho was glad,.to -notico ,that Dr. Gautier' , met .with tho approval meeting. //// v