FROZEN MEAT EXPORT.
Writing of the Protos experiment the Otago Witness says : —lt may or may not be necessary to form an export company, but it certainly is necessary to consider the question. If, for the present, New Zealand can only export butter via Melbourne, and not meat, even that would be an immense gain to our dairymen during the summer months, when they can hardly get sixpence per pound for what is worth fully a shilling in the London Market. What we want is more enterprise. There is a danger of our “ fat burghers ” going to sleep. They are too prosperous to feel inclined to take much risk or look very far ahead. We hope, however, we have yet among us some of that i: go ” which has made Dunedin what it is. Here is a plain matter of mercantile adventure which should not be left to chance to decide whether we take a part in it or not. If Australia has hitherto been backward it has done something, while New Zealand has as yet done nothing.
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Patea Mail, 19 February 1881, Page 4
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178FROZEN MEAT EXPORT. Patea Mail, 19 February 1881, Page 4
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