FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7850, 16 June 1905, Page 2

FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

FURTHER EXPANSION PREDICTED. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Juno 15. During the afternoon, at the win* ter show, Mr Gilbert Anderson, managing 'di cctor of the Christchurch Meat Company, read an interestrnfll paper on tho frozen) meat trade, in which he said that not until the various freezing companies were got to work on a common understanding us to the regulation of sh pmerets and methods of marketing produce would Iho best poss ble results be obtained for gro-wers of stock. Steps in this direction had already been taken, and great as had been; tho benefits \of Ithc freceA ing industry, ho believed they ■would! sec still further expansion in the trado at no groat distant! dateIn replying to a vote of thanks, proposed by Mr T. MacKonzie, M.H.R., Mr Anderson said with respect to the Premier's scheme for opening shops at Home, the Meat Company's shops in Christchurch! were for sale, us they had been a, failure, for the company could not' run butchers' shops. There was anj quantity of first>class butchers' shops at Home, who only wanted to bo wailed on and shown what Now Zealand mutton was like. Tt would bo simply crass folly for New 2feo> land or any other Government U start it« own butchers' shops, and opposition with very large organisations at Home for retailing meat would inevitably be tho result. Now Zealand meat was sold now by a<! the best butchers, and ho did' not think.there was much nctu a l misrepresentation. A good deal of meat was sold without any question beine raised. If that resulted in) very satisfactory prices being obtained', the more their meat; was aistriHutea the better. As lo the fattening of stock, it \wir iil)i v*|ry well Ibr" Otago people to (rust to Canterbuy taking their store sheep and but somotimes Canterbury' had a dry season nnß* 8?o* Wt nvanU them, m which' case fanners might (inn" themselves one 'day caugfit napping,- r