MUST HAVE QUALITY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 321, 7 September 1932, Page 6

MUST HAVE QUALITY

AUSTRALTA MUST IMPROVE HER MEAT TO GAIN MARKETS London, S 'ptember 4. The Daily T'elegraph agricultural correspondent, commenting on the Australian atteinpts to supply chillec". meat, emphasises the deficiency oi the quality of Australian cattle compared with Argentum, which has a :hieved its excellence through the importation of the best pedigreed British bulls. This Australia refuses to do through fear of foot and moutL dis'ease. The writer expresses the opin'on that at the present rate >:>£ progre;^ of building up the Australian herds it will take 10 to 15 years before the Argentinian standard is reached Conversely. he mentions that Australia and New Zealand, through the importation of British strains, have ac-

hieved merit in mutton and lamb unknown in the Argentine. Mr. W. 'M. Ilughes, who is staying at Lord Carson's country home in Kent, told an Australian Press Association representative that during his extended tour of Britain he has looked in vain for signs of Australian goods in shop windows outside London. "You can journey all day long in fair-sized towns without finding a shop selling Australian goods," he said. "Thus, in Yorkshire, you never know that Australia is a part of the Empirs. AustraRan meat is under a cloud, and in.erested p tople see to it that it is kept well under, whereas New Zealand lamb cuts quite a respectable figure." " Mr. Hughcs added that vested intirests must be fought by the best men procurable, backed by adequate finance.