The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1882. THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1128, 18 July 1882, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1882. THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

A writer on the above subject in the* ,N.ew Zealand County Journal asks, "Vi lio shall be our carriers I"/file trade . since the arrival of the Dunedin.in England has 'reached ii neiv stage, of 'development. The cargo by that vessel ; thouglifarilving at an unfavorable time for obtaining. high prices secured rates which were absolutely - remunerative, Not only this but fresh onto- were .at; to-the colony l Eoi ; supplies At' . ■the.risk, not of a company, oiit here, but of a purchasQi''in. London; The trade has;th'uS advanced a step by the risk from the colony to •England. Tlie London purchaser offers . to send.a ship to Port;Chalmers, and buy the. carcases there; qt 2|cl per >lfc The question which the/writer to wlioiji ,we have referred, puts "is whether the 'frozen meat traffic having beenprovedto be remunerative, "Is it worth our while to bo the carriers of it ourselves. or' to. let England take over this part of'the business V Is it wise to lo'se that portion; of .tlio profits, which is obtainable from freights' ? "If-any.Jtfew Zealand.-;. Shipping'CompanieS;jiQ)y',existing or which,mayi'o famed have pliickenough 'theJsean trade, if' ;be better Ifor this colony.. 'Aftheiaaertime it wOuld be desirabje to discourage offers of Engllah tships. The more .competition there' .may be -between hohie'.and colonial vessels for the.traffic the' betteiv and, cheaper-will it be carried. What the'• New Zenfend!'graziers re'quire'is cheap 'freight. With that their.futu.ro profits ■will be cortain. It lias been estimated that the first-class sheep by the Dunedin returned a net amount of something , '.like a'pound a head to the graziers who supplied them. Such a rate would .'in this district prove a small 'fortune'to hundreds of our settlers.- It is one which !tliey may yet obtain, but'even if they lOnlysecured fifteen shillings %y,w,oulil > ij)e much bettetoff-than ever ;theyiUrtye' ! been in their lives. The produntipniof ijfirst-class, mutton promise's to be the most-remunerative occupation in New ■Zealand for. both. the. shepherd,kirig,' : and the cottier. . , ,