NEW ZEALAND MUTTON AT HOME.
Anglo- Australian, speaking" of a visit he i made to the recent Food Exhibition j says : — ln the great south gallery I saw two j fine Canterbury sheep hanging up, and I . watched a goodly number of persons, to | ' whom the sight of New Zealand fresh mutton ; was most evidently a great novelty, stopping to stare and to ask the attendant questions. The so-called sixpenny dinner of New Zealand mutton turns out to be an eightpenny business, but as this sum includes vegetable. 5 !, bread, and attendance, it is really cheap, and very good indeed, and I saw a large number of persons on the second day dining off the mutton with evident surprise and pleasure. An exhibition like this draws people together from the most distant parts of the country, and despite the great exertions that have bien made, and are now making, to popularise this mutton, I conld see at once that it was quite a new thing, and a veiy great economic astonishment io very many of those who were for the first time attracted by the legend of fine New Zealand mutton. The \ price — eightpence all told — for a really web- j cooked and amply-sufficient dinner is un- j doubtcdly now proving a very great attraction indeed, and it competes very closely with the vegetarian repasts in the same building.
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Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 378, 29 July 1884, Page 5
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229NEW ZEALAND MUTTON AT HOME. Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 378, 29 July 1884, Page 5
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