FROZEN MEAT

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 292, 13 November 1883, Page 2

FROZEN MEAT

The New_Zealand Loan and Mercantile x \.gency Co.'s circular just to hand m akes the following remarks m refejenc 1 o thn Frozen Meat Trade! "" When' the , industry was;first r mooted m NewZea-' i MJ'and— iless than; . two, years f ago— the ■ m tost sanguine advocate , could hardly ht: we anticipated such startling results m; so brief^a period. JThe /export al* rei idy covers 147,133,. carcasses ot Bh< 3ep, whilstJLs,QQo additional are under pri :ces9,' awaiting shipment, and we un derstand that engagements' have been . en tejed into for the 'conveyance of at lei .sfc 200 000 during the year 1884. Tr. tis wholesale withdrawal from the j fle cks ofthe Colony cttmot fa'l to give j pc rmanonfc value to its lire stock, and! to the lands which c>arry it; There v ac cordingly an 'appreciable advance m j th 3 price of shef ji to be note! m this co "nnectiou, accompanied by au ira- I pr< oved enquiry for grazing. properties."; Ri jferrin? to the same matter j'^the Bi *uceEPera)d mates; tbe -following rein: irks,- which do not weU harmonise .^wi- .th.. the^fpregoin^ t-rrS'r^V.e r.6gret 'to' !e v srn that" the. recent large expor'tations of ' frozen meat have had a serious inifl uence - uppu the local markets.; .Beef;, b as risen very t ,<mu«h m price," and n .intton was quoted at the last sa'es *. ,t Burnside it 3£d p9r lb, T-ha master 1 outchers of IJanedWnave resolved to .raieeithe pric?, of all descriptions of > meat Id per lb .We., thoroughly b> .. liflve m the imporlauce of the export trade m. frozen mea^ but regret tha 1 . it should result m the price of meat being co se»iously increased in > the colony. Those interested m the , new industry ar* for the most part men of me ins, and the iuc ease of a penny a lb: or so on their mutton and; beef is a matter of little importance, more, especially as their profits will coyer the difference i hundreds "of times over. Bub to the working. classes the question is one of vast importance. What can teidnnein the matter it would be hard tot say^ . - but it is easy to, see. tbat if ths expor- 1 tationof meat by the' freezing process:' dAresults-iiilraising thel-cal price,, all the advantage and profit from the iiew industry will fall into a few hands, and \ the general public will suffer a loss pro--1 portion*^ to their gains."