MARKETS FOR COLONIAL MEAT

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 11110, 6 May 1911, Page 8

MARKETS FOR COLONIAL MEAT

WILL CONTINENTAL BARRIERS BE RAISED? There appeared in one of the recent issues of the Sydney "Herald" an article written from tho point of view that tho time is. near at hand when New Zealand and Australia will have European markets in which to seUsome of their frozen meat. Tho "Herald" said:

"Tho result of the last International Congress of Refrigerated Industries is becoming evident in tho relaxation of tho restrictions which' formerly barred tho way to tho introduction- of Australian frozen produco into Continental countries. Two years ago only -the most optimistic would have ventured to predict the possibility of the removal of thoso obstacles. The congress, however, with its cosmopolitan constitution, took tho matter in hand, and made it possiblo for tho whole subject to bo considered from tho standpoint of national utility. Tho congress tdd . . . . tho millions of Europe .... it was possible to transport from Australia, Xew Zealand, and Argentina the surplusage of their meat produce . . . .

in a state practically the same as on tho day it left tho abattoirs of tlio Antipodes. Tho wild demonstrations that took place in Vienna, Trieste, and Berlin against tho shortage of local meat and exorbitant prices compelled the authorities to institute inquiries as to the way in which tho frozen meat trado was eonducted in Great Britain, with a view to introducing a similar trado into Europe. This promise- was followed by the dispatch of official emissaries to England. Tho prevailing opinion was that this ostentatious display of a desire to meet tho wishes of the people would end in nothing better than an official report, which would share the fate of most official documents of such a character. And probably this would havo been tho case had not tho Federal High Commissioner and Agcnte-Gencral taken advantage of tho opportunity presented by the unrest and dissatisfaction of the people of the Continent to urge tho removal of tho restrictive duties on frozen meat.

"It is at present difficult to predict to what extent tho modifications will go, but it is safe to expect that with tho insertion of tho thin edge of the wedge will como the widening of the opening to permit of the practically unrestricted admission of Australian frozen meat into Europe. Trial shipments in small quantities have already made their appearance in Continental markets with highly satisfactory results, and a shipment is now on its way to Switzerland. A damand has boon created in foreign parts for Australian meat, and the restrictions planed upon importation must sooner or later bo wholly removed."

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