NEW ZEALAND FROZEN MEAT

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 7, 8 July 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND FROZEN MEAT

(Sydney Morning Herald.) The meat that was sent to -England from Zealand has proved a very successful shipment, and it would seem as though Australian shippers of frozen 'carcases had something to learn from the sister- colony. A portion of the cargo Was' placed on the Smith field market, > London, and realised .an average of (3d . per :1b all round, anjl another pqrtjoo. hai „b.een sold at Glasgow, where it realised a still Higher price, 7d per lb . . . The ,*N e JSf i Zealanders have, then, been 'very » successful with their first ship'hient- of frozen meat; they have 'landed the cargo in good condition, and disposed ef it at .al good prioe. We may join in the congratulations that : the little port of Dunedin has tackled this project of the disposal of surplus . stpckimore satisfactorily than either of f 'tfi'e g*feat cities of Australia. It speaks ■ well f or enterprise and care-taking energy of the A people, but it also speaks I well for the climate which both, breeds I men df the strong old Northern temperaj ment] and renders the shipping of frozen meat] comparatively easy. Australian ■5 heat & unknown in the southern half of ..The meat intended for shipment has ; frequently b"e#'n* "' taken out of the freezing stores in the very bot4«»t weather, has been freely exposed in ligkt«rs : and on the decks of vesfcels, and btea subjected to some sort of a thawI ing Uatocesi before being finally deposited I in the freegiqg chambers -of the hold. ;■ Thus* bbaro r exterior condition has been' produced, and the meat, when .put up for sale, has had an appearance fatal 'to its readyiaccepiion amongst such an ignorant yet fastidious set as 'the meat-eating' population of England. Cf course New •rZtf-aknders will .always have- th«^dv»nr I tagX-of us in this respect