THE SUCCESS OF MEAT FREEZING.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 948, 20 October 1882, Page 2

THE SUCCESS OF MEAT FREEZING.

The entire success of the Mataura’s shipment of frozen meat (says the Daily Times) is more guarantee, if any were wanted, that this important trade is now established on a sound basis. The machinery was .by a different maker, and on a somewhat, different principle, from that used on board the Dunedin, but it has done its work equally well. The condition and quality of the meat are both all that could be desired, and the dealers will be confirmed in the extremely favourable opinion of New Zealand mutton which, they had formed from the Dunedin’s cargo. Henceforward cargoes will bo placed on the market at short intervals, and it is hardly too much to hope that within a year or two the interval between such cargoes will be reduced to a fortnight instead of two or three months, as at present. The Marsala will be followed by the Sorrento, and then again by the Dunedin. The Mataura loads, on her return, at Napier, and other sailing ships and steamers will no doubt be shortly announced. Seldom has any important invention been introduced without one or two failures, but so far the freezing process, as applied to long voyages, has been an unbroken success, and we have no doubt that the risk will henceforward be accepted by underwriters at a very moderate rate of premium. There is room for an extension o£ tJie trade, sucli as will place it in the foremost rank of exports from the Australasian colonies, and the larger the trade becomes, the greater will be the facilities for disposing of the meat in the almost unlimited markets of the Old World. Any remaining prejudice entertained by dealers and consumers will be rapidly overcome, when large and regular supplies of first-class meat are poured into the market.