NEW ZEALAND MEAT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4841, 15 June 1925, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND MEAT.

EXHIBIT AT WEMBLEY.

FINE DISPLAY MADE. The New Zealand Meat Producers' Board has just received a most interest letter from itis London Manager dealing with a description of the board’s exhibit of frozen meat at Wembley Exhibition this year : — "I have to advise that the consignments of-meat for Wembley have arrived, and that they have turned out in very good order. The lamb and mutton have turned out in beautiful condition, and, although the quality of last season's was practically perfect, I think the meat this year iseven better.

“The Exhibition opens to-morrow, and our meat exhibit is completely ready, and I think we shall make a very good show. In the general meat cabinet we are making a very line display, in a different form from last year in order to get variety. I have got the same man (Mr Warth) to set it up as last year, and he has made a very good job of it indeed. It has taken 180 lambs and 75 sheep, as well as 20' quarters c-f beef and 7 pigs, So we shall have a very good show of meat. Warth, in his spare time, has also made with a penknife a miniature butcher’js shop, complete with motor vans and delivery carts. The whole is made out of back fat, and discloses miniature quarters of beef, carcases of mutton, lamb, and pork, and looks most realistic. The shop is lit up with electric light, and at my suggestion it is labelled “N. Z. Lamb, Family Butcher.” 1 am sure it will attract a good deal of attention, and will be the me.ans of drawing more people to look at bur meat exhibit.

“As already advised ydu, Messrs Fraser and Scott, the New* Zealand artists who arc responsible for all the scenic work in the New Zealand section this year, have completed the new scenery for the lamb cabinet, and have made a very good job of it indeed. It is a wonderful improvement on the scenery we had last year. I have arranged for the spinning gear to be again installed, and as the two larger sides of the scenery have moving gadgets—one a flock of sheep being driven through the paddocks and the other a railway train with meat vans suitably inscribed with ‘New Zealand Lamb, New Zealand Mutton, and New Zealand Beef’—l am sure the special lamb cabinet will attract a lot of attention. Later I shall endeavour to obtain photographs of our meat exhibit to send but to you.’’

SOUTH AMERICAN LETTER.

The following communication has also been received by tlie board from its EotCh American Representative : “Best quality fat cattle have maintained their price since I last, wrote, and in several cases higher prices than those quoted in this letter have been rccived fon well finished lotis in the local cattle market, where as high as 7.29 d per kilo live weight has been obtained. Values of ti e Continental grade of beef have been better maintained than was expected, and prices are similar to last month s. There is a large offering of the plainer quality cattle, though good stuff is scarce and likely to be dearer. Owners are trying to dispose of all tlie cattle they have in condition before the winter causes such animals to become thin and unsaleable. Store cattle are in good demand, with values maintained, an also arc breeding cattk\

"Pasture lias come away wonderfully all over the country, though there are some districts where the locusts ate the grass or alfalfa so badly that the plants have been poisoned and the ground will have to be resown. The past season , was one of the worst on record for the depredations of the locusts, and considerable areaiJ of the best feeding zones of the country were lost, and some large owners had to dispose of the good class of feeding cattle as they had no pasture to feed them on. “There are some districts in tne south of the Province of Buenos "Aires where' the cattle arc very thin at this season cf the year—the beginning of winter—and if severe weather is experienced large numbers of such beasts will die. These are instances of the conditions in patricular parts of the country, though the general c nditions at the beginning of winter are much better than could have been, expected.

“There is a better demand for all classes of sheep, though large numbers have been sent to the local market. I expect to have the numbers slaughtered in the southern plants to send by next month's letter, though I hear a large number of plain quality unfinished sheep have been killed. “Shipments of live cattle to Europe have practically stopped.”