CHILLED BEEF

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 194, 30 May 1934, Page 7

CHILLED BEEF

PLANS IN AUSTRALIA.

SEEKING SUITABLE, STOCK.

(Special to the “ Guardian.”) AUCKLAND, May 29

“We look upon New Zealand as being in the forefront of the chilled beef trade,” said Major 'J. T. Smith, of the New South Wales Graziers’ Association, who is travelling to Suva by the Niagara. “Your Dominion has a good reputation in that market and Australia is taking the matter up seriously with a' view to entering the trade on a larger scale. It is difficult to convince' farmers that they must change their methods and the class of cattle they run, ,which should be young, smalljointed, early maturing, and high quality beef stock.” In the meantime, New South Wales hoped to produce a class similar to that bred in New Zealand for the export trade in chilled beef. The country was, therefore, importing a great number of Herefords and Aberdeen Polled Angus cattle from New Zealand and Scotland. Three years ago these breeds were virtually unknown m New South Wales, but at this year’s Royal Show in Sydney there was a fine parade of Aberdeens. Shornhorns were popular with the majority of graziers and cross-breeding with the lighter tvpes was still in the experimental Most farmers had been producing” for the'local trade and were only now realising the value of the expoit market.