The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1916. MEAT FOR EUROPE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 68, 25 February 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1916. MEAT FOR EUROPE.

Australian frozen meat is on sale in Paris at prices ranging from twenty per cent, lower than those of fresh .meat, and information avai'able stums that it is much appreciated by the Parisians. There is no doubt whatever that it would be much appreciated also in Berlin if it could be obtained there. There should be an enormous new market in the Allied countries for Australian meat, which is every bit as nutritious and well flavored as the me.’it grown in any other part ol the wo: I'd, and which is considerably chi a per than the locally-killed article. A- a food supplier to the starving nations t.f the cid-world Australia may y-a\s the fcwne- Telegraph}, fin >'■ • best chance of weathering the financial storms that are impending. Wheat and fresh meat, butter, bacon, and dairy products—all these Australia can send to the countries of which considerable areas this year will be sown tfith nothing more profitable than shells and r.ttc millets. The Frendi are reputed to be the most skilful cooks in the world, and Australian meat should got its best advertisement when placed on the tables of die l V"s restaurants. Ibe British Whir Dmcc is already taking large quantities of Australian beef and mutton lor leading the troops. Hence the prospects (of Australian stock-raisers should be extremely satisfactory. Of course the above applies almost equally lo New I Zealand produce and there can be no doubt but that after the war many prejudices which have, in the past affected our trade in frozen meat will disappear.