Freight on Frozen Mutton.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2869, 10 April 1888, Page 3

Freight on Frozen Mutton.

English Kailway rates, according to a Home correspondence particularly hard on the New Zealand frozen meat trade. Nearly all the carcases are disembarked at London, whence they are distributed all over the country. The London and North-Western Hailway Company charge £2 a ton for carrying New Zealand mutton from London to Liverpool, but they will carry American meat from Liverpool to the Metropolis for 255-75 per cent less—and this in face of the fact that the meat going to Liverpool is somewhat in the nature of back freight, seeing that more goods go to than come from London, This astonishing factac ■ centuates the complaints made by meat sellers as to the evils consequent on the present centralisation of the New Zealand meat trade in London. If an inclination were shown to ship straight to other parts of England direct, it might serve to bring tho London and North-Western Company to its senses, Probably its lenient treatment of American meat is due to the feeling that, were a heavy freight charged, the Americans would at once charter ships to carry their meat straight to the metropolis.