FROZEN MEAT.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 662, 22 April 1914, Page 6

FROZEN MEAT.

The dissatisfaction lately exressed by Australian and New Zealand farmers with the limited area of distribution for their produce ought to direct their attention to this port, pays the Manchester Guardian. Why send all tbsir shipments direct to London? By landing their produce at Manchester, where frozen produce can be sorted and kept at the temperature in which it was carried, they can easily deliver it in covered carts for local markets and shops, or by insulated wagons for rail conveyance to the towns within our denselypopulated area, which, of course, within quite a limited radius, is in excess of London, Moreover, there is less danger of damage to imported carcases, as the cold-air stores at Weaste, at Miller street, and in the Walter street meat market indicate. It is well known that this question of damage is one closely affecting the exporters. Since other northern English ports are competing for the trade, it would be well for the exporters to consider the paramount claims of Manchester, even from the point of view of effiicent distrbution.