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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2283, 31 August 1908, Page 2

The Melbourne “Age” sars:—“ln f\ow Zealand freezing works aro established where lambs are reared and 'fattened. Lambs and sheep aro .’slaughtered and frozen within two days of leaving their home pasture lands. The carcases consequently look at- their best, and tlioro is a bloom upon thorn. In Australia the ireezmg works are-most! r to be found at the coast, and the lambs have to cover long distances by road and rail ero they aro slaughtered. This difference in the system adopted by the two countries in the conduct of the frozen' meat trade is said by some experts to account for the penny per lb hotter price offered for New Zea--1 and lambs than for Australian on the English market. Believing that tlio . Zealand policy of decentralisation might be effectively applied to Victoria. a movement is on foot to establish extensive freezing works in the Wimmern district. A committee of investigation lias been appointed, meetings haye been held at such centres as Mill-ton, Horsham, Nliill, Warracknaboal, Beulah, and Dimboola,, and a company is in process of formation Sympathetic support has been given to the project by the Minister of Agri-c----ulture, who, on In's return from New Zealand recently, stated Victoria has nothing to learn from New Zealand in the breeding and raising of ’at lambs. The difference in price is caused by our lambs losing-tone and the bloom so noticeable on the New Zealand meat. This is caused by long and protracted train journeys, by tlio length of time a lamb is away from its mother before being slauglitersd. When they are- slaughtered the skin has to be tom off and the flesh has uo bloom loft.’ ”