Frozen Meat.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1660, 17 March 1886, Page 4

Frozen Meat.

The uds and downs m the price of frozen meat m London since the trade began about four years ago have been many and sudden; j Now. we are rejoiced i to learn that it is once more so high as to leave a eubatantial profit for tho •. I growers;. The fSducfion m the. ;rate"of freight made lately by the shipping ; 'companies has 'also Id be -taken into account' m considering the. improved :state of the trade. . Fat, stock have ■ re;cently been selling m parts of this Uolony ata deplorably low rate, as Reports Jfrprti Christchurch and Uunedin /have '.'fully; shown. 'Prices have" bceu '• down to| the' ord-rates^ before the"days of meat preserving companies thirteen or fourteen years. ago)) ; The news from England has beenj^sp. discouraging . that many fitpekowners have evidently preferred to lot^.tljeirr sheep go for what they would fetch to running the risk of ■hipping. The failure of a . great part , of the. turnip* brtfpin the Spujth has alsp, ; no doubt, induced owners to force into the market every hoof of etook which I they could not see their way to keep through 'the winter. It is to 6e/ feared that m the southern -part of the'iCplpny where the qjiantity of, fat mutton (fpr. shipmeut m the winter is dependent on the amount of root crop, there will be a deficidncyfpr export.; m -the. corning, months. . Happily, however, since tho drought broke bp ]\,he grass - has grown. jVigprpuely. Probably the grass for wirite'r will m most pjacps <be rtolerably plentiful, and m the milder parts of the colony there .will be. .no deficiency of fat sheep.— -Tk'.Z.' Tirties.' ■ .".' „,>'.. '