Frozen Meat Trade

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 81, 11 December 1883, Page 3

Frozen Meat Trade

The NiZ.L. and MA. Company report, under date December 6: — This industry has received a severe check, owing: 10 the low level prices have touched in London. Our friends there have wirhdrawn the effort to to develop new channels for trade. It is evident rh;:t October and i\ov. ar.- the most unfavourable months for realisinu thi- woduce, and it was at least unfortunate that such heavy consignments reachert London at, this juncture. No exception is taken to the quality of the meat, and at their own prices the trad^ appears able to abt-orb all that we can place on the market. i»ut their ideas of value wiil cot suit shippers ; strenuous efforts ar«- now beir<r made by consignees to coinnmnd more remunerative rates, rbritchurcb — J he lonic cleared on 24th November with 6752 carcasses mutton from Lytteltou,ai d tbe Belfast Works are now fully engraved preparing shipments for the Victory and j3ritt.<h King 1 . Clearances to date cover 43 997 carcasses Duuedin. — We have had no departures since our last, but the Burnside Works are busy preparing a cargo for the Tongariro, whicu will be ready on her arrival. Wellington.— ' be lonic, which sailed from this port for London via Lyttelton on the 15th November, conveyed 60li carcasses of mutton and 144 pieces of beef shipped by th»Wellington Meat Export Company. and tbe same company is now busy preparing- 4000 carcasses for m-xt steamer.