THE MEAT INDUSTRY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1638, 3 January 1913, Page 8

THE MEAT INDUSTRY.

COLONIAL MEAT AS ENGLISH AND lOREIGN.

In tho course of tho sitting of tho Dominions' Royal Commission on Wednesday . (reports the : "Mark Lano Express" ui Jiovcmber 11), a deputation was received the Incorporated , Society of Meat 'Importers regarding the conditions'regulating the importation and sale of meat supplies from . Australia, and New '-. Zea;land,. in :coiiii>etitidn - with : meat from' foreign countries. / Messrs. W. ''Blankleyj G. Anderson, and.E..ll. Robmsou, members of tho council of-the Incorporated !Society,.',of Meat. Importers, said that at present: meat ,from-'Australia . arid , New Zealand was classed'in'.'this;.; country as' .."foreign," and was therefore subject to all the,prejudice against foreign meat.; They ltfore ot opinion, that on international label, or Empire trade mark, duly adopt-' ed by Australia and New Zealand, if approved and onforoed: by this country,' would greatly assist' tho ealo .of 1 Empire-' grown meat. Under the present systom Australian.and New Zealand meat had to bo sold m competition .with ■,tho ■ largo .quantities' of : meat.;imtiorted'fr6m'foreign' countries,,and ithere had boen frequent' complaints of substitution of inferior and' cheaper moat. -Prosecutions by Afeontshad moTe J: .than' oiico'-been insti--tuted mthout.bringing/conviction',' owing l -to 'the : absenco ol'j-'any proper, regulations, and inspection ;ih" this couritiy." ,•, -.Vufor'-, tunafcely Greatßritain . wps •• tho only civilised country, that had,no • organised Government— aS^distineti/rom.'municipnl—1 ;mee,t the sub-; \of. Aiwtridian,! or. New... Zfalaiid; .nietit for Eriglisiiyby.. oiie' of,.the.witnesses said;thiit.it was"not>t all; 'lin uncommon priictico in the.West End. .of London for. the; best), joints/ of f thb, best: Canterbury (New' Zealand) lamb to' be sold ' as 'English;:">at-.' the . 'highest . 'English : prices. Pressed .to say whether there was • Zea--land lamb sold .as'.English; the witness ■said that- the ..-proporßonvwa9 ',;no.tf,very great—perhaps i :per . cent, on: a total'ini-: port, of 2,ooo,ooo,W)o:curcasses ) ,or! ; equal -.to, 10,000 carcasses a year, '