WELLINGTON.
Yesterday. In September last the Premier wrote to Mr Griffin, U.S. Consul for New Zealand, who was proceeding to America, asking him, if it would not inconvenience him, to make enquiries into the details of the meat preserving business' which was carried coin Chicago, especially as to the cost of the plant for making tins, and for compressing meat, as well as the expenses connected with each branch of the work when a factory wa% in average operation. A reply dated Nov. 11th was received by last mail from a large firm in Chicago, in which they state it would be difficult to give any detailed items of interest without specific questions. However they could say in general that from their standpoint the chief obstacle of making the business remunerative in New Zealand would be the difficulty of marketing cuts of fresh meat, and without this market to render it possible to dispose of ribs and loins they thought that the canning business would have to be carried on at a disad« vantage, but if the bast cuts of beef could be marketed the canning business might be carried on profitably.
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4356, 16 December 1882, Page 2
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192WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4356, 16 December 1882, Page 2
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