TOUGH OLD RAM.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18726, 24 June 1926, Page 5

TOUGH OLD RAM.

SOLD AS PRIME CANTERBURY. Mr Walter Fuller, now residing in London, iu a letter to a friend in Christchurch, says:— "Hero is an item that I think may interest a section of your readers, and that is in reference to Canterbury lamb. Passing through one of the great London stores a few days ago, my attention waß directed to what purported to be Now Zealand Canterbury lamb. My wife was tempted to buy a leg, but was afterwords sorry she had done so, for it turned out to bo the toughest piece of old 'ram' it would be possible to imagine. I,t was practically uneatable. We have a splendid cook at home, and she said that it was a waste of time in cooking it. I should know New Zealand lamb when I taste it, but it seems to we that the game is not being played fairly, and that it is little wonder that the prejudice against what is, termod 'foreign meat' is so marked here. Howover, this hint may not be Jost on those concerned in the meat trade in Christchurch. "In the same stores I saw New Zealand apples being 60ld; these were Cox's Orange Pippins, which I noted were exported from Nelson. The price of these was one shilling a pound. There is something radically wrong here, for tho same apples aro frequently bought by me in Wellington for 8s 6d a case of forty pounds. Someone is making a fine thing out of these, and I do not suppose ib is tho grower. The slogan here is 'Eat more ?ruit,' but at tho price charged for it, it is quite beyond the reach of the masses."