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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 67, 21 February 1885, Page 2

In an article condemnatory of the. excessive charges made by thY 'middlemen — i.e., the salesmen and the retailers — a well-intormed journal remarks, apropos of the fact that last year ■ about 400,000 carcases of New Zealand frozen meat have been introduced m ; Lohd.bnj:^ " The question may be asked,'. What comes of all this meat ? It is not, as a rule, sold openly by butchers? If a purchaser asks for New Zealand mutton 'at a butcher's he is informed that they never keep it, although, at the same time, 20 or 30 carcases may be hanging up m the back shop, to :be retailed to .purchasers as primer.' ;Dar£moQr or some other well-known kind of mutton, at prices varying according to the purses; of the consumers from Is to 4s 2d per lb for saddles, and legs, the prime cost being under 5d per lb. The. Reception can be, and is, very generally u pr&ci tised, because the quality of the' meat* is of the best character. The disappearance of the half million of New, Zealand sheep that have apparently melted, into air is thus accounted for; and those -who know how to recognise this meat, by its dark rich tint, and the somewhat purplish color the cut surface has' after exposure to the atmosphere, see enough m the London shops to have no doubt -tipon the subject."