CHANCE FOR CANADIAN CHILLED MEAT.

Shannon News, 27 March 1925, Page 3

CHANCE FOR CANADIAN CHILLED MEAT.

The liveliest satisfaction is being expressed throughout Canada at, the decision of the Baldwin Cabinet approving the preference on Empire-grown meats to the establishment of a system of licensing under which dominion meats wil be given first licenses after the Home-grown variety has been used in its capacity to supply the demand and the decision is regarded as giving an immense opportunity for the foundation of an enormous chilled meat industry ia Canada, if the cattle interests will seze the opportunity. Canada’s comparative proximity to the British market, her vast acreage of grass lands, efficient transportation and all the up-to-dateness of her cold storage plants form the foundation upon which a great new industry is expected to be possible. It is known in Canada that Australian meat men, despite many handicaps are rejoicing /over the opportunity as it prerants itself to them had \ Canadians are already aware that their Australian confreres are preparing to seize a big share of the British market. * It is noted that the foreign combines such as those in the Argentine and the United States will be al owed to supply meats only after the homegrown and the i impiro supply has been exhausted, and by this arrangement it is argued that it seems certain that Britain offers a valuable and stabilised market with quick returns and the fullest safety to Empire growers. Since the Australians, because of the distance and the voyagre temperatures, are forced to gc largely into the frozen meat category, and whereas the British as far as possible choose first home-grown meat, it is argued also that Canadians will have an immense advantage'in this trade.