MANILA MEAT TRADE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1188, 25 July 1911, Page 8

MANILA MEAT TRADE.

A DIFFICULTY OVERCOME. A year ago the trade in live stock which had sprung up between North Australia and the Philippine Islands was suddenly terminated by the authorities prohibiting the trade, owing to a case of pleuro having occurred in one of the imported beasts. Several suggestions were made to overcome the difficulty, as the importation of live stock had reduced the price to the consumer by onehalf of that paid for chilled beef.'After some local agitation an officer was dispatched to Australia to inquire into the disease ff pleuro-pneumonia, and it is presumably as a result.of. those investigations that fresh action has now been taken. At the end of May tho GovernorGeneral of the Islands appointed a committee of experts (o agree upon a site for a floating abattoir* at Mnriveles. The committee were instructed to" consider also the question whether flic works could be best carried on by the Government or by private enterprise. Although the fact had not been slated when the last, mail left, the general opinion was that the importation ot live, stock from TVyndhnm aud Port Darwin would be ■ shortly resumed, stales a Sydney paper.