FROZEN MEAT TRADE
ll ha:: been a pu:«li3 to sheep o-.viiui-> in tiie colony why there should bo such a gap between tho price thoy get fur frozen mutton in England, and that quoted for English and Scotch mutton in the .same mirkeu It is known that the best of our N.Z. mutton weighing from ii'-i lo ii-1 lb per carcase arriving Homu in first-c-labs condition is sold bv the retail butcher.-! as " prime Scotch," whilst heavini- carcases ot oipial condition are sold as ■' best English." 1>»tween the -J.'.d, which on an average such fr.'/.cn mutton brings in ttuglaiid wholesale:, and the Sd to 10J 15 retails for as English or Scotch meat there is a gap which should not exist, and growers here are at u loss to understand why they do not get at least yd per lb for an article that is readily .saleable at double that price retail. Thoro is a difference, too, in the price of frozen meat from different parts of the colony, that tinm Canterbury averaging fully Id pur lb more than that iron) Wellington. Altogether tho trado is in anominoiitly unsatisfactory stato so far as graziers are concerned, and we ate not surprised to learn that Mr Frederick Battiey, Inspector of the X.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited), has taken tho subject in hand, with a view to going thoroughly into the wholo of the details from the time the aheep are killed in Xew Zealand until they are sold by tho butchers at Home to their customers," eithor as a Home-fnd mutton or in their character of X.Z. frozen ineit. Mi Battiey will make an oxhaustivo examination into the whole business, and be in a position, when he has linished, to clearly lay before the numerous clients of the Company the causes which have so long prevented them from reaping their proper share of tho profits of the frozen meat trade. Mr Battiey will not, of course, rest content with tracing tho damaging causes, but will devise means to counteract them, and secure to the growersof X,Z. frozen mutton something like a fair price for their shipments. Mr Battiey is now busily examining into the freezing, packing, and shipment oE tho meat at this end, and will leave for England in March next, watching the method and etticacy of treatment during transit and unlonding and storage u-hmi arrived. When in England Mr Battiey wd! scrutinise closely the different, stages the meat has to pass through before tinally reaching t.h.: consumers, and discover, if possible, why the latter should pay a pi-ice so fur in o-;t- iss oi' that the shippers got for it Thai: Mr Buttley will succeed in his difficult task we havo tlin fullest confidence, and fuel assured thai", the stock owners of S'ov,- Ziahmd will ciro lonff havo ample cr.use to than!; him !'<n- a greatly improved condition of the colony's frozen meat trade.—W'nngrmui Herald.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2896, 5 February 1891, Page 2
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488FROZEN MEAT TRADE Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2896, 5 February 1891, Page 2
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