NEW ZEALAND MUTTON.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 174, 20 June 1884, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND MUTTON.

I The hesitation with; wMoh frozen jmeat was at fir jb "received m the (London market, and the anxiety that i«ras displayed, on the part, of retailers jbo conceal its identity ...and 'palm it off |Lipon r ihe, unsuspecting customer £ as prime; Scotch- or Southdown,. iippe&rs to be wearing away, and judging from jthe following, .extract } from the European Mail, the— anxiety amongst batcfeVsTap^peaji'srho^ tg be jtp[ all v^r-;i-.e *its frozen origin as widely as possible, i 1 '"'An'^ib-^ustri»lia'n," m chat .^ paper/., .says; :-rr " Cpni petition is* certainly.. ft) fine tilling ,, for' '[the, con-i; sumer m; .these; ! day!*,; -T*jhen ;■ [ i;t once ; sets; In strongly among the rival pmv VeyjorSiOfwir.dailyj bread, iniWbate.ver form that may be. I have just: been; astonished, and .-much, amused, to note the vast alteration- that ; h'as cornel 6ver tliOj ispiritS/ of .nearly <,aihthe butchers m the south-east of the metropolis, m. regard to the purvey ing Of the New- Zealand mutton. In one considerable district, for example, where, not so many weeks ago, the only purveyor of Canterbury mutton was an obscure ham 'and .beef shop, proprietor,, who had just a "sheep or ] few^o" on Saturday." nights, there ißv now q uite a. n umber of large butche^ alLoageily announcing to theircus--tomers and the"' public- that they retail the colonial mutton ait such and such rates. -More ,<than this,* in thai High street of Sydnieriham a gigantic banner ' had been, stretched across the road with a flaming legend to the same effect,! and m another quarter a liegimeut of "sandwich men" are patrolling; the pavement between boards,; on each' of which is a separate section of an t( appeal " to the masses, and an announcement that " prices 1 of prime Canterbury mutton have been greatly reduced." 1 This certainly^ does appear to be ! the Gase.t for 1 -saw myself on the . boards 1 - of' one ■■ of the ' neighboring' « butchers very nice pieces of the^reasts" ! (jf'muttttn marked as low as fourpence per ' potindj Tlf is"- is, 'of course, the' way ; to popularise the meat. Tli6 ( striking' thing nt»w : to m f c is the fact' that? ther New Zealand 1 ! mu tton 'aeenis „ to <be all a* 7 ondd 'the' meat m poSses--1 sioii. It has- the' first-frdnfr rank' iii' several large Chirsfcmas-Hke displays, and' the' ; lEhgf ish *m atton ; i<? Jfor^ the present relegated to- the background, (ponsiderilig r thb ! ? silortn6.-l§' ? df We^fime ijt has tajteii to, firing ahout, this change 45.-Jindeeu a- emtekk^le. • fact is, I am. told; ;on:;gond]apthority, that as the retail. butchers "stood by each other" for.,.a r rlong- ! jvhile m declining, openly {\ at- leasOiVfcp keep the Vchiap meatjV:'s9 "tney~|iuye agreed :1s a body td|r'ake~ it" xip^j manfully. One unqaestiohable re^ui&has been to increase our daily meat consumptionr seSWbaitcnas Alreaclwss|ftha^ . even at the greatly reduced rates thf}charge for, /the: colonial meat, .iheir yveekly takings have actually augmentedriThisis a •.singular'* facb for the .consideration of. pur" political. • (icohoniiscF. 'there can' be I no doui>t but that m the southeast of Uie; metropolis :i 'Uiif'. New Zeala'mr mni iiiti is ' ; n6w 'being rapi'dfy '■ pppii--larised. „ „ . '— •