FROZEN MEAT.
A correspondent, " A.M.M.," sends us a piece of news which shows that colonists going Homo may often do good service in removing the prejudice against New Zealand meat if they took a little trouble in the matter. A Ohristchurch resident who went Home ia 1894 called on Dr. Philip a London medical man, brother-in-law of Dr. Mickle of this city. Iv course of conversation about the colony, the visitor referred to the excellent qualities of Now Zealand frozen moat and mentioned a shop —Fitter's, in Loadenhall Market—where he believed the genuine article could be procured. Yesterday a letter wae received from Mrs Jackson, saying that they now always use New Zealand mutton, and like it much better than English. The great obstacle in the way of making our frozen mutton popular in England is the difliculty of getting the genuine article under a proper name. On this subject Mr Labouchere, writing in Truth of November 28th, says:—"The Euglish retail meat trade is a great mystery, and one of the most mysterious points about it is that it is almost impossible to obtain American or Australasian meat as such. In other trades you find, at different classes of shops, different classes of goods sold at different prices. In the provinces— occasionally, but not aiways—New Zealand mutton and American beef are sold under those names, and at lower prices than English meat. In London and other large towns, however, the butohers manage to sell all classes of meat under one name at one price —and that the highest. Butchers presumably know their own business best, and I suppose this vraogement must be to their interest; but ib certainly is not to the interest of the public, and I should think not to the interest of the meat growers. British meat would probably command a higher price than at present, if it wero sold as such, and with v guarantee of its gettuiueness. Oα the other hand, if foreign meat wero sold at a reduced price, the consumption would undoubcedly increase. Ia it not worth the while of the producers, both at Homo and abroad, to take up this question V
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9307, 7 January 1896, Page 5
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FROZEN MEAT.
Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9307, 7 January 1896, Page 5
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