EARLY DAYS.
The following is culled from the Waikato Argus of January, 1898: — Mr Cameron, the Now Zealand Produce Commissioner in London, - reporting under dale November 2fi(h, says the market for all kinds of New Zealand produce eontinnes greatly depressed, and prices all round have receded. A number of the eareuses received from New Zealand have been very dull and stale in appearance, and Air Cameron suggests, in order to avoid the inference that they have been kept in the colony some time, that the various refrigerating companies should mark on a tag attached to each sheep the date on which it Avas slaughtered. A good number of sheep lately coming forward have been of very inferior quality. The blame of (his is certainly to he attributed to shippers avlio luiat sent sheep away greatly lacking in finish. The report of the Health Offieer of the port of London shows that betAveen January and June seven vessels arrived from New Zealand on which Avere condemned as unlit for food 233 carcases mutton, 172 legs mutton, 15 cases sheeps’ kidneys, and 1-lcAvt. cheese.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1873, 5 September 1918, Page 1
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182EARLY DAYS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1873, 5 September 1918, Page 1
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