NEW ZEALAND MEAT AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1791, 29 December 1883, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND MEAT AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

TO THE KDITOR. Silt,— l wrote to the N.Z. Herald upon the abo\ c subject last week, but do not know if my letter appeared, as I do not take the ] lerald. I beai d from the secretary of the New Zealand Frozen Meat and Storage Company that they hoped to begin to take meat in March next, in reply to my enquiries, as I had a large 'number of fat blieep. I remarked that Auckland was the lowest maiket of the chief cities of New Zealand, .md though no chance was missed to puff its precedence, Auckland had yet no freezing works started, though Dunedin and Christchurch had each two. ~ Oamaru, Thnaiu, Wellington, Invercargill, and Napier cacli had one at work or starting, and it w.in not creditable that steamers should have to go there for cargoes frointh^ '• chief city '* in the colony becau^gMflH was no means available , to d^^^^^^^H suiplus production in tlnn^^H^^^^^H injuiing our prosperity pij^^^^^^^^^| ways. I have suggested that in preference to creati^^^^^^^^^J slaughtering on their U^^^^^^^^^H that at convenient points on the' railway theie should be slaughtering depots where, on fixed days, producers could, by arrangement same as to a sale or mai ket, send their fat stock which could be killed and ;ent by suitable trucks at night to the freezing works on the reclaimed land. . The stock would not be injured as to render it unsuitable for freezing if sent to Auckland alive ; the cost would be about one-third ; the name slaughtermen could attend the various depots and gain experience and expsrtness by constant work ; pijrs could be fed, and the refuse could be utilised by farmer* in the vicinity, and where paddocks, <&c, would be convenient. The pioject to erect paddock stations for fat sheep coming from Napier overland is not very taking. Napier sheep owners will, I think, prefer trucking their fat sheep from near their own farms to Wellington by railway, via Woodville and Wairarapa, or Woodville and Manawatu, as both' these lines will be open for their choice about as .soon as that from Pateteie, and they will save the 200 miles travel through the overland "desert," but the "stations" may be useful in bringing over other sheep, good store wethers or ewes, to supply graziers here. If the company had a depot here, it \\ ould become a regular business to drive in stock from Napier and ripen them ready for slaughter on the splendid grazing and turnip country around, while half Down or Leicester lambs could be grown for the London market. Nature, and the advantage? of situation, railways, &c, peculiaily fit this place or Morrinsville for such a depot; others might be at Cam* bridge, Te Awamutu, Hamilton, or Ohaupo. I fear the cheese market may be over-done, but for butter the market is unlimited, as even in America, ''the land of cheese," they cannot, it seems, supply themselves with good butter, and priced rule equal to London. Would it not be well then that besides fruit, honey, preserve and meat canneries, the company might have a butter factory at their Auckland works (if pure water can be got), to work up the butter by machinery into grades of quality that would soon be regarded as of standard value in America and Europe. Fresh butter could also be .sent frozen, and the 'Frisco boats should be bound to provide conveniences as well as carry our letters. What we require for our farmers is a butter market for tneir products, and to be able to produce cheaply by haying greater facilities for economical production. — I am, &c, Wm. Arch. Mukrat. Piako, 2Gth December, 1883.

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