FROZEN MEAT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 543, 25 June 1909, Page 5

FROZEN MEAT.

AN AUSTRALIAN INQUIRY INTO METHODS. (By Telegraph.-Press AseociaHon.-Oopyrlplrt,)

■■;'■ ■ ■ ' . ••■■■. Brisbane, Juno 24; ' ; A mooting of froezcrs and others intorested in,the frozen moat trade discussed 'tho causes--of. tho deterioration of th ß - meat on its arrival-in England,, -.It was.decided, that the present methods of.-preparing' -.meat for export wbrounsatisfactory, 'and n committee was..' appointed to, inquire into and report'

\\ A NEW! SOUTH WALES OPINION team nrntton trade. He W,ha'faSd that the first grent obstacle that Australinn mutton had to overcome, was the British palate It ll b r n - ■ d "»l°P«l I M : I«W wol mutton-Lin-?w'n cos u r, ? nd CheviotTand refinod with the Downs breeds:.,.As a consequence of thi" he mUder and more dejicate flavour of the merino is entirely lost on the British palate littlo if oay.flavour.- Home-grown lonir-wnn mntty mil .command GR. to 7A/ ortfC* 2d Z ?,t D , d Sld - I nn<l »S &a, ,tQ IW, I'hewoll-to-iio pcopla no in fnr long-woof nnd Downs mutton, the Vtto-arti.. ~ the le.Weas'pr thefatS of as .yth. the, bigger Breeds.: It ia the po« people who buy merino,; and it is meat not fat. that they, want; hence it is.that the U s ht«r weight Aostralian mutton inyariablv realises more per pound than the heayfe^-aK vS$ tfuFi 1 i S S i ?en??a !! y Primer ioal Fat is worth »A o to Jd. per b., 1 and tho poor man out for the Sunday dinner wants mutton and not inntton fat. Imloed, ha will insist upon ■the fat being out off. j In this wav f r S nnittqn fvcight is pwd on much that should go u, the tallow cask Tl l 0 better -class buyers ? n f f {r y"' tt() , n V!'.no': !opk, 3 t the Inmpj fat. Mien tho lean side has its disadvantages, «r the-lean, thaws ont Waok.--.-Tho thiol- pai't of the lcjT epyered only with-ekin invariably does so. But as tho very poor need meat, anil can only afford to buy (hat which can bo obtamed at a very low price, they purchase it 1 reprdlees of colour, as they do rabbits or nnv other -llesh, . ..-. Armours and others have (Hβtnbuting ngonmee in London and the nrovinces; but when Now Zealand n nd nW« Plate cjossbrctl- mutton oonio?ilown .to--2W;' Australian morinft at 2d. is unsaleable.' indeed, large portions of shipments from Svdnov in Januniy and February are .still in store With regard, to the recent .shipment-that was condemned, that was 11 lino of - forceframed, - poor croisbrcd ewes; (hey were killed iip country, in. Victoria, nhd.shipped from Jlel hourno. . • fhe- sheep were, emaciated when killed, -and the mutton not up to export standnrd, StUI when al ls admitted with regard to the qra.wnacKs of Hie fiozen moi-iuo on the British niarltPt, it Pitt points'.outnn ovenvhelmins setrolf in the ■Wool. The totnl J" 1 "! I, ™ nL 81, ™ ~ nn ' , l?n, . b . '^ 6t , nmou'iitod to 1,200,01X1 wii-onsses, which, at Th. Gd iipioiirciiM, amounts to only .i'MO.OOO. A trndo worth oultivutius liv all mrims. Slill, nnv elumn in- Uiut.w not so perilous as it woulii be it with msr»o wool."