Poverty Bay Standard. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. Thursday, January 12, 1882.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1022, 12 January 1882, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard.

PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. Thursday, January 12, 1882.

We shall sell to no man Justice or Right; We shall deny to no man Justice or Right ; We shall defer to no man Justice or Right.

Attention to the various details seems to be all that is necessary to thoroughly develope the successful exportation of frozen meat from the Australasian Colonies. Unfortunately it would appear that the shipment that arrived Home by the Garonne in October last, was not in good condition. The sales effected being as low as 2d per lb. “ The mutton ” says the “ Loan and Mercantile Gazette,” offered for sale w as not in good condition, and gave evidence of apparent want of care in preparation for shipment.” Although recent shipments have not realized the favorable prices anticipated in the London market, there is a growing desire on t’-f- parl of the English public to avail themselves of the facilities now being offered of becoming supplied with ex- i eellent meat. Correspondence ap-

pearing in the Home papers shews I that every day the frozen meat expor-1 ted from the Colonies is gaining in j public favor. There are however’ several drawbacks, of a minor character, militating against its really extensive consumption. One of these is that the meat salesmen will only sell to butchers, who buy in wholesale quantities, and retail the frozen article to their customers, endeavoring sometimes to pass it off as English meat. With the usual antipathy so often found against anything of a novel character, the butchers at Home seem to object to selling the foreign article under its recognized title. Ordinary persons buying are therefore at a loss to know- where to go to purchase retail, while there are comparatively but few who find it convenient, for private use, to lay in a wholesale stock. The establishment of large Australian Meat depots in the populous centres of England would soon obviate that difficulty. The thorough utility of this industry to the Australian Colonies will be better understood when it Is known that hundreds, of carcases of the Australian frozen meat have in the retail market at Home realized from 6Jd to 8)(1 a pound. American meat, we understand on good authority, could, a month or two ago, be scarcely obtained wholesale in the London market at Gd per lb. The position the Australian venture may confidently be expected to take up in the English market may be fairly inferred to be one of very great importance. We have before our eyes the fact that the manager of the American Meat Market Company in Bristol—a company possessing a keen insight into their business—states that Australian beef and mutton were worth from |d to Id per pound more than the meat brought over from America. With careful attention at the outset to the details of the business, and a special watch exercised to prevent any shipments of an inferior qualityfinding their way on to the London market, there can be but little doubt of the exportation of frozen meat becoming a permanent industry highly advantageous to the Australian Colonies. Apropos to this subject, it would appear that Hawke's Bay is not going to stand idly by in the matter of frozen meat. We understand that Mr John Chambers, of Te Mata, Hawke’s Bay, but now in England, has patented an invention for a refrigerating machine calculated to be of great service in preserving the meat while in transitu.. Doubtless in the halcyon days to come, which we fondly hope are not far distant, when Gisborne will be able to boast of its breakwater, after the design furnished by Sir John Coode, when we have English ships in our harbor, the frozen meat export trade from this port will form an important factor in our commercial prosperity.