EXPORTATION OF MEAT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 89, 10 March 1884, Page 2

EXPORTATION OF MEAT.

I-. •'-.•-• .. ;.■■ — •• ■» :'.,."■ ' ~A: lUe^y Scheme. ;i*^---\i. :■■'.' n: . 1.-^rf? ex .■:.;;.■: ; I (Wellington Correspondent of Auckland r HeraldJ ; 0 -v ! It hi&y paeutiQß.-xjriiat t^Delie.ye is not yet generally kuown, lha 1 ; a very important new schenie is under the consideration of poetical men relative to meat exportation. Hitherto the [exportation of frozen beef has pot been a succesjs.. Indeed, it has generally, been almost a tolal failure; yet cattle are, at disproportionately low prices here as compared with home: Tho recent AQ-day : passages of direct steamers have recalled to mind old experiences m importing entile l;o New Zealand from, Australia when the passage was quite common of six weeks or more, m wretched little vessels with utterly inadequate, appliances , for securing safe transit of living freight . ,!i[eyer.tl<eless, profitably large portionr/of cargoes use<i ! to' arrive all right, ■^e^jng tl^siß 'f^c^ \n mmd, the pre.sentjspherap under consideration is to' ■Benclhome cargoes of live cattle care•jfuljy lodged m a, space m the 'tween decks of the present big steamers, and land them m England, not 'of course fit |6k th.c butc^ep, r but m suoh condition that "a liftle , " finishing off " witlv oil cate, ike, would render them ready for the market. 'There is n large margin for profit, and my informanl, who w"a tiiorpughly capable judge, ,expe-. rienced m cattle transport, is convinced ' tii^t JLliejplan cian, and will be woiked '. BjQLQ^sfuliy, arid will fbrui a valuable atlj.uht't to the exportatibn of frozen muttoni The niatter is being careHuily considered piivately as bat inore yefc, will be htard of it tre long.