THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 138, 12 June 1911, Page 7

THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

(From Onr Special Correspondent.) LONDON, May 5. Sir Wi-iam Hall-J ones, High Commissioner for New Zealand, was the guest of the Cold Storage and Ice Association on May 2, at its annual dinner, -held at the Waldorf Hotel. Mr. C. E. Brightman, president of the Association, occupied the chair, and among those present were Sir George Reid, the Australian High Commissioner, Sir E. Montague Nelson, Mr. Gilbert Anderson, Mr. Hal Williams, and Mr. C. H. Williams, of New Zealand. Sir William replied to the toast of "The Empire and Refrigeration," proposed by Sir Montague Nelson. The High Commissioner said he had been delighted during the past few months to note the change that was coming over the Continental market, Austria, Itady, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland were already showing signs of becoming markets for frozen meat, and he could foresee the time when they would have a greatly extended market for their meat. It behoved them to be prepared to extend the trade not only into every part of Europe by also into every corner of Great Britain. He was not afraid of duties, but he did not like the almost prohibitive restrictions which some European countries imposed on frozen meat. But the time was coming when the people of those countries would force their rulera to remove those barriers to a cheap food supply, and he believed that the next three years would see almost every country opened to frozen meat.