Colonial Meat and Butter at Manchester.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 130, 1 December 1897, Page 2

Colonial Meat and Butter at Manchester.

In an article in the last quarterly jour« nal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, published on September 30th, Mr William E. Bear statei that he saw in the cold stores at Manchester a good deal of Australian rabbits and New Zealand butter, besides chilled and frozen butchers' meat. Most of the frozen mutton was Australian, for although the Argentine mutton has still the chief command in the Manchester market, it is not much stored in the city, as the River Plate Meat Company have cold stores of their own at Liverpool. The trade in Austra lian mutton and lamb sent directly by the Ship Canal, with some from London is gaining ground, and this meat is kept to a considerable extent in the Manchester cold stores. Only a small quantity of New Zealand meat is sold in Manchester at present, and that is from London, but there were a good many carcases of lamb from that colony, ns well as from Australia, in the freezing chambers when visited by the writer. Frozen pigs from Australia and chilled pitfs from the United States we re also stored in the Manchester freezing rooms. One chamber was full of New Zealand butter, which was sent dfrect to Manchester up the Canal. The quantity was sufficient to be valued at about L'2ooo. Not much Australian butter gees to Manchester at present.