The Frozen Meat Industry.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 231, 30 March 1895, Page 2

The Frozen Meat Industry.

o (Per Press Association). Christchurch, March 28. At the annual meeting* of the Canterbury frozen Meat and Dairy Produce Export Company to-day, Mr John Gregg*, chairman ot Directors, congratulated the shareholders on tbe satisfactory state of the balance-sheet ior March. They had frozen 28,039 carcases and potted 4035. The total of sheep and laiibs received bad been 432,660 ; 485,478 fir^t class, and 11,022 as second, 13,803 had been rejected alive, and 3366 dead. This careful manner of rejecting sheep had enabled them to keep a foremost place in the London market, and at the same time it had enabled them to do a very good business. He urged the necessity of breeding; suitable classes of sheep. It was no use farmers turning out very large sheep which were quite unsuitable for the Home market. He mentioned that Belfast merioos made lOd, while other brands were 7id to B£d, and other lines in proportion, which showed that their wool commanded a high price in the Home market. On the matter of Home freights he hoped that a reduction would soon be made as they could not understand why the Australian mutton could be carried at so much less than New Zealand. Now that steamers could get full cargoes at one or two ports} he anticipated that it would soon be possible to reduce the charges for freezing still further, and this step would enable them to urge more strongly on the shipping companies the necessity for lowering freights. The report and balance-sheet, the substance of which had been previously telegraphed, was adopted.