LAMB EXPORT TRADE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1447, 23 May 1912, Page 10

LAMB EXPORT TRADE.

OUR ARGENTINE RIVAL. The lamb export figures from Argentina for the last four or five years have shown a. continuous increase, and if this increase assumes considerable proportions, it will surely in time, says the "I'astoralists' Review," have the effect of steadying, if not of reducing, the values obtainable for Australian and New Zealand lamb in the London market, the very best grades, perhaps, excepted. It used to be thought that Argentina was not well adapted to growing the English grasses necessary, for fattening, and that therefore it would never become' a serious factor in the lamb export trade of the Southern Hemisphere. That such a belief was fallacious is being proved by the rapid strides which have been made in the direction of building up a trade with the Old Country in frozen lamb. In 1907 tho export of lamb from all parts of South America amounted to 110,000 carcasses. In 1900 518,000, and in 1911 1,092,000 were exported. These figures, although not large in comparison with Australasian exports, are still largo enough to nmko an impression on the market, and especially as the supply.is fairly regular. From the figures quoted. South America is apparently quite ablo to develop a big export trade in lamb, and remembering what the country has done in the past in other departments of the meat trade, it behoves Australia- and New Zealand producers to.spare no effort to raiso the standard of quality if they wish to maintain the position thev howhold.

WAIKATO LAND SALE. Eighteen farms, ranging from 80 acres to 200 acres, in the Rukuhia Estate, near Hamilton, are to be sold by public auction by Messrs. Cooper and Manning, in conjunction with Messrs. Roche and M'Gregor, Hamilton. The sale will bo held at Hamilton, commencing at 11 a.m., on May. 30. This property is described by tho auctioneers as comprising part of the ■best fattening and dairying land in tho Waikato district. Tho property.'is, situated close to a creamery and school. The auctioneers announce that the sale will afford an exceptional chance to:obtain n good dairy-farm. Special attention is directed to the terms, which aro as follow;— Ten per cent, on fall of liammcr, ton per cent, in twelve months on improvements to the valuo of fifteen per cent, and' the balance can remain for five years at five per cent. Plans and particulars may be nad on application to the agents. An advertisement appears elsewhere. .