New Zealand Mutton.
Writing to the Napier Telegraph apropos of the encomiums passed on the mutton sent home by Lord On slow. Mr W. Nelson says "a large amount of utter rubbish has been shipped from New Zealand and a still larger amount of " unsuitable " mutton. At the commencement of the frozen meat trade in New Zealand the greatest care was taken in the selection of mutton for shipment, and some of your readers may recollect •• coming down " on the Tomoana manager for being " too careful," rejecting too many sheep, &c". Later on the English meat market became so bare that anything would sell. Old ewes, ill-fed lambs, anything could by courtesy be called meat, made a high price. From that time practically all care in the selection of animals for shipment ceased, and at this moment the trade is feeing the result of this general carelessness." Mr Nelson concludes" If every sheepfanner would make an effort to grow a sheep of suitable quality and weight say from 55 to 05 lbs, and every freezing company would decide to ship no inferior meat, or excessively heavy weights very little more would be heard, in the shape of complaints, of New Zealand frozen meat."
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 26 November 1891, Page 3
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203New Zealand Mutton. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 26 November 1891, Page 3
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