A MEAT INDUSTRY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 995, 9 December 1910, Page 8

A MEAT INDUSTRY.

'■}.:;.' '•■ ■'•■ ■'"':.;■;; FROZEN WALLABY.' • Tlie: London correspondent of the "Sydney 'Jloriiing 'Herald writes-.— ••■,. , "A'Smithfield firm-'/.have ■ started a -;"■ Wholesale trade in frozen.wallabies. They ': have, imported: from Sydney.'about 800 -,'. in'three', shipments.. The carcasses have 'ranged widely :iu weight,,4. to 141b.; al- ■_-.. ready, sales, have been inado of 400, and ..'the' price-has been from Is. to 35., ex ".'■; 'coat ...and tail. I .fancy, the high price / .of., fuf skins is, at the bottom of the busi- ■' the.demand for the wallaby skin is: far. more brisk, than for the wallaby v'.carcass.V.': About -Is. -To. 2s. .Gd... has been X niade for-the.skins; which are used for :.[ lining motor coats.'- .There is also the tail to be considered, which makes from ;: 3cU'i.to; Gi: .for soup-making: Tho cus- .. .toilers for these Sydney wallabies are '; restaurant proprietors, who dress, up the ■ "carcasses jugged,: and serve .with current ;.'■■■ jellyii' Reports from tho cheap restaur- ;/; ants'found the city of; London are to tho "effect that their customers like .the new j. dish, but a slight prejudice on account of • the. unknown word; 'wallaby,' appearing :' on the bill exists. An'eating-house, near' : . Fleet 'is wallaby, at' lOd. -■the portion, 'arfd- a growing .demand; frojii-, .the scribes: '-is encbura'g--. •■ing.r jThe SniithfieldAfirm will: continue;. >' to •import the; whllSbies; .if i si-r-cure. supplies: '..'-■ ■'-.' "The occasional parcels of frozen kanga•vroos'that', have reached London iii a frozen instate 1 during the last 10 years have never '■■■'. done."any, good, to shipper or importer. : The-only parts of. any. wholesale value :! »re ' the' skin and', th'e'-ltail." : ■'