FAILURE OF A FROZEN MEAT SHIPMENT.
The cause of the failure of the Cuzco's shipment of frozen meat'is thus referred to by the Sydney Telegraph,— 1 ' To i-QTV a popular phrase, ' The murder is out' respecting the shipment of frozen meat by the Ouaoo, The Secretary to the Orange Sh\U£ht;erjn£Uompanyhas told a tale that, if 'its' authenticity "were not guaranteed, everyone would feel disposed forsay must be the invention of an enemy The sheep (says he) were badly butchered f and the fact is proved by thejconcurrence
of the reports and the New Zealand Company's advices, The Secretary who took charge whilst the shipment was in progress, instantly discharged one man representing himself,; /to ,-be butcher, as incompetent; and has sin'pe* discharged the foreman for his unreliability.,,lt is^ admitted that thWe were iebcj old eweJiit the shipment, and that the thawing of'some of the carcasses is a ' true bill.' Thus we hcive an instance of improper carcasses, badly butchered, and faultily sent away. No ingenious foe could have been sanguine. enough to hope Wat" he would be half so successful in efforts he might make to damn the new trade. There may be, and probably is, something in the secretary's explanation for such a conglomeration of folly and stupidity,: .'* The sending of old ewes and; some small wetherswas a matter of necessity, the Company; having no funds! ana ' no .squatters , offering any better.' The ; -stolid 1 apathy' of squatters who, with their nominal rent and high prices for wool, have far too easy times, is starving the otherwise promising frozen meat trade. It is very clear that whilst, there may be some-truth in the complaints' that justice has not been done to Australian mutton north of the Equator, it has been abominably treated in the south. The trade has been henvily handicapped by blundering, negligence, and , ,the , attempt to palm off on the Biitish public old ewe . mutton as _ lamb,, and t as prime wethers.", ' ' " , V
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Temuka Leader, Issue 9410, 13 May 1882, Page 3
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326FAILURE OF A FROZEN MEAT SHIPMENT. Temuka Leader, Issue 9410, 13 May 1882, Page 3
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