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Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6492, 17 December 1881, Page 4

It in, of cour*e, Imponrible lor any meat undo to get on without Mr Tallernmn If any mea could hare made lb® trade in tinned meat*, il waa Tallyman. the enterprising, the «hfew4 the ahi<|o«tone, the eloquent Bat a* no mm c,,«ld perform that moat difiicolt feat# the meat trade ended hy breaking Mr Tstienaan. Bat It did net •appro** him, for no newnff doe* meat come before Ibe public from the Antipode* in aootber form, than Mr Tellerman outers the field as it* ally. Only the other day* we read of him heading an organisation for preventing illegitimate trade interference in ibo disposal of shipment* of Atiftlratian meat*. This organisation will, no doubt, do much good in conjunction with colonial effort, which, however, moat he the main spring of tfae poshing power, il ibis trade is toheposheditsll. Happily, therefore, for once the enterprising Talkrman seeus to he earpassed. Hie organisation is, to Jadgo hy its programme, meting in a manner which, thongh in some respects excellent, is In the main unpractical and theoretical. Writing, speechifying, dinners we presume, and the publication of information concerning Australian meat, enter largely intoite trews. The idea of the Orange Company to establish meat depots all over the United Kingdom, in connection with a cold store in London, Is worth a dozen writing sad speaking organisations. Writing tad speaking are all tery well in their way, hot the way of nnmerooa shops with displays of prime Anstrallaa meat on tbo books is better. Colonists wUI he pleased to leant that this system, when established, will hare a raloable ally in Mr Talierman’e organisation. Bat without the system, Mr Tallensan will really have nothing to pash forward. It should he thoroughly understood that colonial effort is idler all the main power, and must net be relaxed.