FROZEN MEAT TRADE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3095, 28 May 1917, Page 8

FROZEN MEAT TRADE

AUSTRALIA'S PROSPECTS The Hon. !W\ Angliss. M.L.C., of Melbournoj •who is on 'a visit to Chiist- ' church; is tho principal of ono of. the lamest frozen, meat exporting films in tho Commonwealth, which also operates in Now, Zealand, In an interview -with a representative of tho "Press," Mr. Anglis9 said that the principal reason why the exports of Australian frozen .mutton and lamb had falleii"off was because of tho "necessity for stocking np after tho last'drought. Most of the owe lambs were being retained for breeding pur- - poses. At the. present time there was practically no congestion in the freez- . me works through' shortage of shipping, nccpt in Queensland, whore there was more • beef awaiting shipment. During tho coming season, Mr. Angliss stated, ho expected that Australia, would increaso her exports of mutton and lamb to about tho normal extent. Ho thought this .would affect New Zealand for n, time, as shipping would be required for tho Australian meat, and New.Zealand would probably have to wait until a littlo later for vessois. The Australian lamb season began much earlier.-thttn, in New Zealand, and as little artificial feed bo grown .in proportion to the largo area upoji which the lambs were raised, they ha'd to bo sent.away off their mothers. So far as beef was concerned, ho found that Australian cattle were better ' finished than in New Zealand. This ho attributed to the Australian cattlo fattening more quickly, as thoy had not to • overcome the effect"! of a cold winter' as in New Zealand. Compared with Australia, tho facilities for .raising aiid fattening stock in Now Zealand were much creator. Here, there was abundance of water, and besides tho pastures, more artificial feed'could be grown: New Zealand" was belter supplied with frcozin? works than anv other country in the world, and another good feature was that the works were so well placed for securing the ■ stock-raising and fattening districts. - Eerarding the fixing of prices for meat or othfer produce.. i(. had not been a success in. Australia, .and Mr. Angliss was further ,of opinion that the less'interference there.was with the markets the better it-was in the long-run for the consumers. ' Hijh prices would always bring forward supplies and readjust values. The export values must rule the local market.?, nnd so far as meat was i concerned, it. would pav the cxnortors to supply the local*market at tho-export value. . His firm sunnlied part of the local. market in Melbourne, although there were three public abattoirs, and he only had to pay tho cost of n visiitng' insnecfor, to pnss • an( ). i, ram ) |-|,„. tnw £ 'T-h/v abattoirs in: Sydney and-Adelaido had be»n expensive luxuries. The scheme adonled in some of the North Tsland cntres whero the™ wore freezing works, of supnlyinnr <|„, lov a l | ra( ] o 0 „| ; of j.|, e meat mil-chased for exonrt. was, he thought, a. good o«e. and eliminated unnecessary competition. ■ . •.,

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