New Zealand Frozen Meat

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 93, 4 February 1892, Page 2

New Zealand Frozen Meat

The following is an extract from a let* ter addressed by Colonel Gorton, from England, to the Adyocate ;— •• I have said nothing about the frozen meat, such an important item in New Zealand's welfare. The sale is steadily spreading throughout England, amidst great difficulties, The farmers naturally haye a great prejudice against it because it has undoubtedly brought down the price of their meat, and, a curious thing, the servants in the house* holds very often object to eat it, though their masters like it. That it is good, there is no doubt about it. We lived on it in the lonic and it was excelleent. I en* joyed the -cold beef at lunoh every day more than anything, and the. mutton can' not be beaten. I am convinced that many a man at home eats it under the impression he is eating English mutton. The prejudice, 1 believe, however, is get** ting less. Only the other day a gentle* man's coachman, who was driving me (he happened to be living at his house finding himself), said he had a delicious dinner last Sunday off a leg of New Zealand frozen mutton, and that he liked it better than the English mutton ; that there was a shop in Abingdon, Berkshire, within a few miles of him, and he generally got a joint eyery week; and that people are beginning to appreciate it. I have no fear as to the future of this trade, or of New Zealand, if we only have a deoent Government."