Frozen Meat Trade

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 66, 12 November 1885, Page 3

Frozen Meat Trade

«. The N.Z.L. and Mi Company report under date of sth Novembor : — The price realised for our mutton in the Home markets still rumaiua vory low ; It is quotod in latest cable advices at 4£d. la consequence of this continued low lovel of pricos, the stoam ship companies have rwduced tho freight for frozen mutton per steamer to l^d per Ib. In view of the competition from Australia and South America, this step towards minimising transport charges is ono in the right direction, and will no doubt conduce to a further expansion of the trade. Dunedin. — Tho s.B. Aoraugi is now loading, aud will take over 7,000 carcases mutton. When this shipment is finished, the -works at Burnside will be stopped for about a month. The iioxt vessel to load will probably he the s.B. Elderslie. Ghristchurch. — The export for the month from Lyttelton amounts to 8,000 carcases mutton shipped by the R.M.S. Tongariro, which left this port on the 12th October, sailing for London via Wellington and Auckland. At the Belfast Factory, freezing was suspended from October 12th to 26th to enable the workmau to proceed with the new extensions. Operations were reeuuiod on October 26th, and a shipment of 5,000 carcases mutton is being prepared for the R.M.B. Aorangi, which is expected to loave Lyttelton on the 14 th inst., for London via Wellington. Auckland.— Tho NZ. Frozen Moat mid Stoiuiro (.'onipany lias boon busily c<i\yai;fiii during tho month preparing shipments for the s.s. Ar.uv.t a,:il TiuiKariro. Uotfi stcatuors cutno ulougnii!u tho wharf, which is dhvetly connected with tho works, and tho shipping of tho frozen moat was douo with dispatch aud a minimum of handling. The s.s. Tongariro sailed direct for London on the 25th October, with a cargo of 1,540 tarcasos of frozou muttoa, 1,591 backs of mutton, 2,500 piocos of boef, 50 lan»bn, beside* about 5 tons of butter. The s.s. ! Arawa loft horo for London direct on the 2 1 at instant, with a hI ip:nont of 4.007 carcMiiß of frozen muHrm an 1 lumb, an>! 5 Was bu-tor, »!-o 1,000 •a« a of profwrvotl meats weighing l.Md io. Wellington.— Tho R.M.M Tongariro •vailed oil Octobor 18 via Au< klauJ for I/>ndou, with 2,500 carcasos from tais port.

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