FROZEN MEAT EXPORT.
Writing of the Protos experiment the Otago Witness say 6 : —lt msy or may not be neces?ary to form an export company but it certainly is necessary to eonsider the question. If, for the pre ent, New Zealand can only export butter via Melbour c. and not meat, even that would be an inmense advantage to our dairymen during the summer months, when they can hardly get sixpence per pound for what is worth fully a shilling in the London market. What we want is more enterprise. There is a danger of our ''• fat burghers" going to sleep. They are too prosperous to feel inclined to take much risk or look very far ahe: d. We hope however, we have yet among us some of that "go " which has made Dunedin what it is. Here is a plain matter of mercantile adventure which should not be left to chance to decide whether we take s part in it or not. If Australia has hitherto been backward it has done something, while New Zealand has as yet done nothing.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 356, 24 February 1881, Page 3
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181FROZEN MEAT EXPORT. Temuka Leader, Issue 356, 24 February 1881, Page 3
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