The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH TS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1913 THE MEAT TRADE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 77, 5 August 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH TS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1913 THE MEAT TRADE.

There can be no doubt but what th> removal of the United States tariff which (hitherto has amounted to a pro hibition against meat products of othc countries, will have a beneficial effec on the frozen meat industry of Nev Zealand. The outlook for the de velopment of a reasonably large trad< in frozen meat with the United Statewas described as promising by Mi Alexander Lucas, a member of the Canadian Royal Commission on Agriculture, when in Auckland last week. He stated that, of a recent shipment of 1200 tons of frozen mutton sent fi;om New Zealand to Vancouver, GOO tons were immediately transported to

Seattle in the State of Washington. That the matter is considered of sonic importance in the United States is proved by the fact that the New Zealand Government lias been informed -that an official inspection of the frozen meat industry in the 'Dominion is Lo lie made on behalf of the Government of the United States by Or. A. j I). Melvino, who is chief of the Bureau l of Animal Industry iu the United States'. It is also, stated that Australian linns have sent special representatives to California, to examine the situation of the meat market in thai country, and (heir impression is thai the market for colonial meat on the Pacific coast will grow immensely. Their representatives were placed in communication with various firms handling Now Zealand and Australian 'meat, and they are reported to have concluded satisfactory arrangements, but the ultimate result will depend on the actual finality of the Tariff Bill be-

fore the United States Congress. There is in addition some prospect of a con-; siderable trade in butter opening up between Australasia and the Pacific, Coast, and if the American tariff is reduced from six cents per lb. to three j cents, it is believed that a large and profitable trndo in this line would spring up.