Frozen Meat Trade
Says 1 f thV Telegraph i-^Th'e "month «of march wUl.be .^a bu'syjime.. for the - Bhii>ping -m-: 'Napier. ''Be'siSes the- ■ Oamaru now iv' port,- the 'fi.MS. Aoratfari^will arrive here on.' March ; 2nd, ahd^wiU befoll'o'wed by the large. • new cargo stpamers - • Tekoa and • Otarafnia/ ; 'and'Tyßer?s liner Star of Victoria. These ' vessels ' will carry away from here 95,000 -carcases of : frozen m!ut\dn.'- Since 'the '-'freezing • season. " comnien'ced-thafc' is 'tosay, ' from - f the" ; b'oginning of last'N'oyeiuber to the- p t resent : 'tim.e, : over-230,000 ■* carcases have been shipped :from' Napier^'and some 'idea of-"the'enor-mous growth of the trade can be - obtained from ''the i'a ! gW figures. It is hard^ to say 'wh\it "position the • pastoral itfdustry would have occupied ; in Hawke's Bay 'if tKe frozen; meat .trade had -' not 'arisen. -When 'the • -district can export Mh five-, months • '<825,000 carcases, and' can "keep on • «doing it^"- ? the' J 'question forces' ! itself ■ Tipon one, what 'would the owners have .-done with those 350,000 'sheep if " there had been nofrbzehmeatmarket ?
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 112, 14 March 1891, Page 4
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165Frozen Meat Trade Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 112, 14 March 1891, Page 4
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