Wool and Meat Trade
[Times' London Correspondent.] I need hardly remind your readers that now, as twenty years ago, the largest and most valuable export from your colony is wooL What would New Zealand do without her golden fleeces? and how touch she is indebted to the qniet and inoffensive 12,O0O,0iX) of sheep now despastnring, in arcadian simplicity, within her pastoral domain. Ail Austral&ins ought to bless the very name ot sheep, and all towns, great landholders, squatters and colonial knights ought to have, in bare recognition and gratitude to the founders of their wealth and importance, the figure of a fat wether quartered on their (if any) armorial bearings, for not content with exporting the skins and and woolly coats of sheep, they now refrigerate and export their very carcases. The arrival during the past month ot 24,000 frozen carcases of sheep in the British King and Catalonia from New Zealand has excited much attention and comment. It shows what New Zealand can do, and that the business of freezing and sending Home frozen mutton has fairly commenced. How to continue it and extend it is the work of the future.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 86, 22 December 1883, Page 3
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192Wool and Meat Trade Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 86, 22 December 1883, Page 3
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