Frozen Meat.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 125, 4 November 1884, Page 3

Frozen Meat.

' ;One. great fact m connection with the '■ft-oteen meat trade (writes the Canterbury - Tirtiw/Hfts notbeed made as much of as it deserved. When the trade began, it was asserted freely by the people who know all about meat (aa they know all about everthiher else) that the number of •heep m New Zealand would not stand the srtain of exportrrvhich the exporters •were preparing for it. The calculations of all calculators, were, they declared, 'too Sanguine. Meat-freezers, shippers, shipowners with expensive refrigerating machines, were all destined, by. failure of the sheep supply, .to come to utter ' crief m the fools' paradise they were for themselves. Tho facts have replied. In the first year and half end Mbf 1882 to beginning of 1884— febre thari half a million fat carcases , were sent away, and yet, when the ex- ' pprtxtrade, 'is slack, the price? of fat •irtockjdeßcend with disagreeable rapidity. Mor^bitfer, boef, which was. to have adto hn enormous value, has re'aaiitfed stationary. There is not much f^6ubt ; tb'at the demand for export has Jnot^etnearlygr^ached the limit of pioThe. limit, on the other hand, jbas jpipwe^s of expansion m both, islands iwi6h it Would be hazardous to dilate