DUNEDIN'S CARGO OF FROZEN MEAT.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 13, 29 July 1882, Page 3

DUNEDIN'S CARGO OF FROZEN MEAT.

• : -♦ Sir F D. Bcll-wr^Wt|» tli^ T*oj»<fon ", times as follows re^ar&n^ the Dnin* edin's cargo of frozen meat : — TO THE KDITOROF THS TIMES. Sir, — Kvery New Zealand cdlonist will thank you for your article of to- . day. Let me a^k \ our permission to adr a few wjords tq ?aj why the arr-j' al ' °* °» n MOO >fieVpjsh«Ul d i>s Wei cpm ed 1 to you. ■ in a striking; lpft-T on American mi'ut. supplies, which appeared in the , I irm.s last, December, your corrpspond 'm, in order to show how enormously rh'j i xport of meat hsiil increased, from America to England, told von that the Sates had sent you in 1880 irore than riO.OOOcwt oJ fresh meat, nearly the some amount of tinned And pre- . served n^rats ; and.>,til]. Jaraer.quantir) lies' of :i hams' anil bj&ori. Another letter said that these ham? and bacon, alo.<v4n fiUMy nad amounted to 7,,C00.000cwr.. I Ii- his "hala- c 'sheet of the World" .^jlv Miilhull tills you how your annual t'jefioic.'ofiMeat is more than 600.000 tOiin j how every year }ou are becomM'K more and more dependent on atlier couutiics for the food shpply of vi ur prople ; and how 33 per cent of all the m at you consume and 40 per cpntpf the «.. rain (weighing : together rie;.rl_v 8,000.000 tons) come to you lion foreign nation-. Js t not better, since you musrneed have t=o huge a smiipiy, that yor/sli<>uld get as much of it as you" can from your own Colonies rather than from foreign countries I We in Now Zealand, at any lute, mean to send you plenty of ir, and you must regard this ffr*t .shipment only as the harbinger of a gnar trade, Tor our soil and cli rhife are favorable to laying- down land to permanent pastures, and th* refiore to the production of meat jind dairy produce qjftiiglj qualify. Ctfst year we had nearly nirip times more land in English grasses than all Victoria, Aew.Sonth^Wales, Qtieibslaml, and South tustrulia put. together, and for six years past we sowing of tbese s ha» be< n < xtending at the rate of 300.000 acres a j'ear. 'Ihis means ijhat— fVew -Zrahirtn— meat and dairy dtuffwillbe c<»m?ng t" you in those new refrigerating chambers, n<<t only in large quantities (but what is more V» t!:e purpose) m exceptionally good I Ififteulndow^s anif *krf»er« of England have to look at these food i upp ies from the other side of the voild as a *' i->o iigious fact," they vill remember how much better it is lor Knglaud to receive the food from her own kith and km than from those who may one day be hrr enemies — Your* obediently x \ ■'■) j"ji)< ?j j . IThE AGKNT-GrjfKK.VL OP NkW ZEALAND.