FROZEN MEAT EXPORT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3600, 25 January 1883, Page 4

FROZEN MEAT EXPORT.

Two hundred carcases of mutton AA-ero brought doAvn by train from the yards of tho Gear Meat Preserving Company at Petone shortly before 0 o'clock yesterday morning, and immediately put aboard the ship Lady Jocolyu, Avhere they Avere lowered into the freezing-chamber by means of speciallyprepared and fitted cages. In the chamber mentioned they Avere placed on hooks as nearly as possible in the same position as they Avould have been in a butcher's shop. As soon as this Avork had been completed, the doors AA'ore closed, tlie refrigerating machinery being-immediately put in motion. At an early hour this morning the meat Avill be taken out by the stevedores, put in ■wrappers, and placed in the main chamber, where it aa-HI remain for three days, in order to ascertain Avhether the freezing has been properly done. Should the result prove satisfactory, the carcases Avill be stoAved away, and. a fresh lot A\-ill take their place. Consignments equal to about 250 carcases of mutton Avill bo sent doivu from the slaughtering yards daily until the chamber has been filled". The mutton brought doAvn yesterday is of excellent quality, and pronounced by those avlio ought to knoAv somcthimr of these matters to be thoroughly adapted for the English market. Tlie average Aveight is said to bo not more than OOlbs. AYe notice that 100 fat bullocks, the property of Messrs Stevens and Gorton, of Bulls, arrived overland in charge of Air R. Stevens yesterday. These, as Avell as several other AVest Coast shipments, Aviil be slaughtered at the yards of Messrs AVoocls, Crosbie, and Co. It is confidently believed by Messrs Stevens and Gorton that Ncav Zealand beef will find great favor in the English market.—Ncav Zealand Times, 17th instant.