MUTTON FOR EXPORTATION.
The Waimate Times says : “ There are on vjew at the shop, of MrMolloy, butcher, a scpfp ): jof -gfpnd .two-tootli half-bred wethers from the. • Waimate. restate* -a sample of 600 which Mr Studholme proposes; Ip send Horae per the Frozen Meat
Export, Company as a trialshipraent. Some of the- carcases: turn - the scale at 861b, the score averaging 751b each all round; i iThey are in prime* condition {: and could not be surpassed for quality. Mr Johp; jPguglas,! j JiVaihpa;.Downs,! i |s also sending 1000 carcases of four-tooth crossbreds of splendjjd quf»jity,. { In .both ; cases the precaution' is being taken to label every carcase, showing what the sheep are, and where they come from,'in fact giving full particulars, so that the district shall get Jhe Tull .benefit of the credit which they are sure to, earn, instead of prirhe ' -NeW* 5 Zeal and Ted ' mutton being
passed off b3' The London butchers as ‘ best Scotch,’ as was done in the ease of a recent Australian shipment. The consignment goes home per ship Mataiira.” Wc fancy, however, that it will take something more than mere labels to prevent frauds, judging:by the accounts of the tricks played by the “ trade ’’which have been published from time to time.
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Patea Mail, 22 May 1882, Page 3
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208MUTTON FOR EXPORTATION. Patea Mail, 22 May 1882, Page 3
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