FROZEN MEAT MARKET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3057, 30 November 1908, Page 4

FROZEN MEAT MARKET.

Interesting information concerning the state of the frozen meat market in Great Britain was given the other day to a "Lyttelton Times" representative bjr Mr Arthur Sims, who has just returned from a trip abroad. There was littie doubt, he said that while over a series of years there had been a considerable increase in the export of Argentine meat and other goods to Great Britain, consumption had correspondingly increased, and New Zealnders could always be sure of a payable price. The Argentine farmer, by his persistent efforts to improve his stock, had core into competition with the North Island in the matter of sheep, but the Dominion coulcl easily hold its own in regard to lambs, and it would pay well if the North Island farmers devoted themselves to the lamb trade, as Canterbury had done. The New Zealand market was well looked after at Home, and there were plenty of gencies that the public never heard of at work to improve the quality of the output. The consumption was increasing steadily, as the output from New Zealand showed, and England was becoming more and more a meat-eating country. He did not mean that they could expect the same high prices for lamb as those that had prevailed last year, to which the shortage of beef in America, had largely contributed, but the farmers of New Zealand could always rely on getting a fair working price for their lamb. A temporary drawback to trade at Home just now was the bad state of the country and the great amount of unemployment.