The month of March will he a busy time for the shipping in Napier. Besides the Oamaru, now in port, the R.M.B. Aorangi will arrive here on March 2nd, and will be followed by the large new cargo steamers Tekoa and Otarama, and Tyser's liner Star of Victoria. These vessels will carry away from here 95,000 carcasses of frozen mutton. Since the " freezing season " commenced— that is to say, from the beginning of laet November—to the present time over 230,000 carcasses have been shipped from Napier, and some idea of the enormous growth of the trade can be obtained from the above figures. It ia hard to say what position the pastoral industry would have occupied in Hawke's Bay if the frozen meat trade had not arisen. When this district can export in five months 325,000 carcasses, and can " keep on doing it," the question forces itself upon one, what would the flockowners have done with those 350,000 sheep if there had been no frozen, meat market ?
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6077, 18 February 1891, Page 2
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