FROZEN MEAT-DIRECT STEAM SERVICE.
* Speaking at the Carterton meeting to consider the frozeri meat question, Mr Beethain said—ln the Wairarapa district he estimated there would be 106,000 >; for export, but he would like to point i ©utthatit was riot what they had now that . nthey shOttld go l by/ but : what they would ■have in the future under this Stimulus in the-marketi They could produce an enormous surplus of-stock for export if they Could only get fair prices for their, limbs, ifie had often thought it a Sin that splendid sheep (fit for' any table) ' should have no better fate than to”he (drolled down for the sake of their tallow. Now these sheep ’ will help to feed the , population of other parts of the world. ' THOre would soon be no necessity to look for a market, as English firms would be seeking to import from ‘us, instead of us seeking to export to‘them. Mr Costa, manager of the New Zealand Shipping" Company, 1 is noW in England deranging''for the of; a direct line of steamers for New Zealand; and had offered to take meat home at 2d a pound. He had no hesitation in saying that a direct line of steamers for New Zealand had not offered to carry meat-at 2d per pound without calculating the profits and knowing it would pay- •■ !l ■
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Patea Mail, 30 June 1881, Page 4
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