MEAT FOR JAPAN.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 June 1922, Page 7

MEAT FOR JAPAN.

STEAMER TO LOAD IF CARGO OFFERS. Market prospects. The insulated steamer Canadian Scottish, is to load frozen meat in the Dominion for Japan. In the past experimental shipments have (been made to the East from Australia, but this is the first occasion on which a steamer has loaded in New Zealand for Japan. Although meat is provided at meals in all the European hotels in the chief centres of Japan, it can scarcely he said to be a staple dish with the Japanese people, who subsist for the most part on grain foods, chiefly rice of varying grades. It is stated, however, that even if meat were within the range o-f the pockets of the mass of the people some time would elapse before they could accustom themselves to so strong a diet. In this connection a Wellington gentleman who has visited Japan in recent years stated that meat has been introduced into the Army rations in Japan, blit the digestive organs of tile men have to be studied by commencing with a meat meal once a week and working up to once a day, and towards the end of the training course to three European meals per day. Probably the demand for meat in Japan arises from the fact that annually thousands of Japanese go to Europe and America for educational training of all kinds, and on returning to their native land find it.hard to settle down again to purely Japanese food.

Should the agents of the Scottish Canadian succeed in securing a cargo of frozen meat for Japan, the result will be watched with considerable interest as a market for our principal primary product as near as Japan would be of considerable value.— Dominion.