New Zealand Frozen Meat.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 50, 31 January 1885, Page 4

New Zealand Frozen Meat.

Ignorance and prejudice st 11 largely prevail with v> regard to the New Zealand mutton. It is siirprisjjig.jtipmflite wfyattsillyi. things are circulated m otherwise well-informed , quarters' regarding the meat.' 'For instance,' I am told by some who ought to' know 1 that the trade iis depressed, and one butcher, shaking his head sagaciously, as he thought,', remarked that he had always said that the meat not do. I might have told him with perfect trutjh that it very often jdoe's' excellently well for, prime,l'%Ks/i mutton, oiilyl could not be so iude f and personal, , JVlany of the butchers behaving very foolishly ; indeed, and., some of them will, if .sey do not jmind, disco v,er, when _ too. late^ tjiat they, liave.' ruinp^ busipesses [by thq, : l)alT]h.earte4. ! ,tn.anner; ,jn which they have taken up the n^ew meai :i In this connection, I may mention/that!M£s]si!s j^elson 'Bros. ,(Limjted), |( 9f jHjll, iHpndon, have made'"' extensive ' ana .wejtl drgjanfise^arja^gements .fof, renting and . properly equipping a, very lextensive [wnea, a^joiwing the Cannon-street railway station, and having, the gifeat and qbvjipus advantage of a river , &onta.ge, f#r the jiurpose of stor|irig, -the meat -and~*upplying -the trade with facilities for obtaining tne mut-: ton that have long been a desidera-, tumwith all sensible purveyors ; of, butcher's meat. This action on "the ( jpartf >of ■ iN elsori « ißrothers i avill jvi^ ,tually constitute a new departure, » Srid cannot fail to " exiSersise' a N jer^ decidedly*' beheiicial : effect In ! tHe: N ew Zealand muttbri ; trad6 ? ' which Iras mbst'tihquestipnablyliin epor-' mous field. for future^ 'operations m Gfrea^ 'Britain— a' field' "iwh'ich jwill , eyentnally'.y/ield a,yery rich harvest, and one as' permanent as rich. | It, is not at all uncommon to find eve ! n : just and .purely legitimate criti<;ism i; entirely .overdone^ The case of the 'irifchmartJwhp exclaimeo'that he] v/as . to,any. ,man,. and a deal better, is not by any rnearis'uncommoni and certain, jll-advised, And, m jmy opinion, injudicious, persons ' are just'provirig' v too much " ih regard to M New Zealand button. / , : 'Notlong'sinceVsoniebody reported ''tji'at New 'Zealand riipt had 1 realised ' n,o l^s.'jthan 7(1 pcr 1 lb. m the'wjioles'ale market, anyhow 'some .ekqually zeajous, frierjds ibf rno'riopolies,' I; suppose, are writing m the daily papers to the effect that the price of ;New Zealand mutton will soon' Jbe, appro/Xtn^lfte^to thatjof English imut-' -t^n^ >^js %fn4 ?^ tß^iqgcis silly! and rnis^hevfousi' For'^ne thW, it •tends obviously to make' Isome j per-} sons m the jr colonies form entirely ; fallacious idea's 'of what the fiture. status of the, , .New . Zealand fresh r , muttpn trade will realty W and, for another evil, it propagates /enitirely /erroneous views, m Englancl. ; Unless, indeed 1 , : New Zealand, ; niiitton rc&ti be retailed m this (Country :at a l ' permanently low level of prices, the' Wade tian nevdr reach those colossal T»fopdrtions which it naturally should do. Cheap, good meat is the order of the new regime of ,pvp- : coloniajt^m.e&t supply, and no ; good avef'jcojiie^put of, the temporary. inTiatiPri'oi^prices^ tirftes 1 ? to a, few. 'sfelfrsli I 'itidiviauals/. and etfen; they woujcl.bej so far, only killing the tiUt'laitl thxi golden egg. No, . no ; prices of N,e,w Zealand mutton 'mus't.jbe low— and must; he |mainiow^V tooV-a»d q^er^ • effort maae'.'toVlevelop. the trade "tp j those :gigjintic ; dinjiens^ons wmch, would renders it ,a Really, , natiphal (l nhatter, .and not one tp..b#cqusidere4 simply ; as in/ any sense.; &, close commerciaL , borqwgh.'.i.i ; y i,« •■>. .-, .. .), '!> nii>i