MEAT CANNING INDUSTRY.
o (per press association.), WELLINGTON, Saturday. In September last tho Premier wrote to Mr Griffin, U.S. consul for N.Z., who was proceeding to America, asking him, if it would not inconvenience him, to make enquiries into the details of the meat preserving business which was carried on in Chicago; especially as to tho cost of plant for making tins and for compressing moat, as well as the expenses connected with each branch of work when a factory was in average operation. A reply, dated Nov. 11th, was received by last tnail from a large firm in Chicago, in which they state that it would bo difficult to give any detailed items of interest without specific questions. However, they could say in general that from their standpoint the chief obstacle of making the. business remunerative in N.Z. would be the difficulty of marketing the cuts of fresh meat. Without this market to render it possible to dispose of ribs and loins, they thought that the canning business would have to be carried on at a disadvantage. If the best cuts of beef could be marketed, the canning business might be carried on profitably.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 973, 18 December 1882, Page 2
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