ENGLISH BEEF MARKET.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2492, 12 October 1922, Page 4

ENGLISH BEEF MARKET.

INFLUENCE OF ARGENTINA

LESSONS EOR DOMINIONS. SYDNEY. O t. I'd. Ml- J. Elder. managing din-iinr "I Die John Cooke Company, lms returned from n visit to England. As a result of exhaustive enquiries in the meat trade, lie savs the market lias been chared of the old stocks of Australian •and New Zealand meat, which lor so long; was the main cause of the severe losses to the trade. The better quality and better dressed meats now heme unloaded had also helped to destroy the previous prejudice against Australian meat. In view of these facts, the British consumption, which vyas steadily growing, should materially increase. The most serious competitor was the Argentine, which had a never failing supply of excellent cattle. The Argentine companies, by their complete and continuous control of the volume of the exports, really decreed the fate of the beef trade m the United Kingdom. The Australian frozen beef was now ot an all-ronntl better, quality than the Argon! me. yet so much harm had been done to its reputation by unloading old stocks that prices wore generally lower than for Argentine. The hitter’s propaganda was excellent and well, worth copying. Argentina was also making great strides in supplying ihe class of mutton best suited to the English re(|Uirelneuts.—Press Association.