OUR FROZEN MUTTON.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1067, 1 August 1883, Page 2

OUR FROZEN MUTTON.

More Favourable Testimony. We learn from the Lyttelton Times that some lime ago a gentleman in Christchurch inquired from a friend in England how the New Zealand frozen mutton was liked. The friend replied that he had not even had a chance of seeing the New Zealand meat, but was grimly conscious of the fact that for what prime mutton he did get, he was paying Is 2d per pound. Thereupon a carcase was sent from here as an average sample, and the letter of acknowledgment, to hand yesterday, was as follows:—“ Many thunks for the frozen mutton, which duly arrived, and which I inspected at the butcher’s shop here before it was cut up. Except that it looked a little 1 squeezed,’ I should not have seen any difference with others in the shop. We sent some to various friends, and they all pronounced it very good. I had two or three friends to pass judgment on the saddle, and we agreed that the quality of the mutton was first-rate—brown, and full of gravy ; but it was just a little hard, owing probably to our eating it too soon. The weather was hot at the time, and I was afraid of keeping it. All you have now got to do is to organise a fleet of ships that will bring us 7000 carcases regularly every fortnight: then we, the consumers, may perhaps be able to purchase it on reasonable terms, but not before.”