MEAT FOR GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 August 1922, Page 9

MEAT FOR GERMANY.

; HEAVY SALE BY AUSTRALIA. 25,000 HEAD OF CATTLE NEEDED. The sale to Germany bv Queensland of about 8000 tons of beef'and 200 tons ( of mutton practically guarantees the Queensland meat works continuous work • for the rest of the season. It can be ; said now that the works will take all 1 the available cattle in Queensland. The I beef represents 25.000 head of cattle. ' Asked whether higher prices would De ; paid to cattle-owners, an exporter . would not commit himself to anything definite. The probability, he said, was I that from now on slightly better prices | would be offered. “Perhaps the best thing about it.” he added, “Is that it may be the beginning of a very considerable meat trade with Germany. It is easily the biggest sale of Australian frozen meat that has ever been made to that country, and we are'hoping that it will be the forerunner of more orders. Our information is that very little meat is being eaten by the Working; class in Germany, and the possibility is that the price at which Australian frozen beef can be sold will bring it within their reach.”

Asked whether there was any prospect of exporting meat to other European countries, he said there did not seem to be any at present. “It is largely a matter of money,” he said. “Most of the European countries do not seem to have any money. Germany is about the only one that is able to do business.”

It was stated in the trade in Sydney that most of the old stocks of Australian frozen beef that had been in Lon--1 don for so long, had been sold to Germany. The clearance nf these stocks jis also considered to be a favorable factor from the Australian meat trad- | ers’ point of view. It is also pointed | cut that whatever meat is sold to the I Continent, whether it be Australian or ‘ American, will decrease to that extent thereby give hope for an improvement the supplies on the London market, and in London prices.