Colonial Meat and Butter at Manchester.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 136, 8 December 1897, Page 2

Colonial Meat and Butter at Manchester.

In an article in the last quarterly journal of the Royal Agicnltnral Society of England, published on September 80tb, Mr William E. Bear states 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 tbe River Plate Meat Company have cold stores of their own at Liverpool. The trade in Australian mutton and lamb sent directly by the Ship Canal, with some from London, is gaining ground, and this meat is kept to a con siderable extent in the Manchester cold store 3. 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 from that colony, as well as from Australia, in tbe freezing chamber when visited by tbe writer. Frogen pigs from Australia and chilled pigs from the United States were also stored in the Manchester freezing rooms. One chamber was full of New Zealand butter, which was sent direct to Manchester up the Canal. Tbe quantity was sufficient to be valued at about £2000. Not much Australian butter goes to Manchester at present.