FROZEN MEAT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 72, 21 September 1912, Page 9

FROZEN MEAT

NEW ZEALAND AND THE CONTINENT PROSPECTS OF TRADE. Some important references to the po»«' sibilities of trade in frozen meat between New Zealand and various Continental countries are made in a report 1 presented to the High Commissioner by the Produce Commissioner (Mr. H. C. Cameron), laid before Parliament y«.terday. The past year, says Mr. Cameron,has been a very busy one in connection with endeavours to secure the- modification, if not the removal, of oppreseir& and restrictive regulations in variou* Continental countries, so as to permit of the importation ot frozen meat. H« goes on to deal with the various countries a* under :—• FRANCE. Enquiries have Tseen made through the British Chamber of Commerce v to the likelihood of , any French importer assisting to carry out. th* experiment of sending a shipment of frozen meat to France, and a, firm at Mar* seilles expressed themselves a» willing to do co. Full details were therefore sent to Wellington, and it is hoped that the shipment will shortly be made, During the year an actual demonstration, of refrigerated meats as sent from the Dominion was made in the working 'refrigerator in tho New Zealand P&vilionti at the Roubaix Exhibition, referred to' elsewhere. GERMANY. Considerable interest was aroused^; both in this country and abroad, by a report that a consignment of Australian', frozen meat ti complying with the sanitary regulations in every respect, had, been successfully imported into Ge«« many early in January of this yew. Careful enquiries were made, and it was ascertained that the parcel in question-, consisted of one hundred carcases which , had been forwarded by Messrs. W. Weddel and Co. (Limited) to their agents in' Bremen. Half the meat went to Ber- 1 lin and half to .Chemnitz, and quality and condition were quite satisfactory from a consumer's point of view. Full details were duly forwarded to th« Government. At a later date' a further shipment was made, but with the approach of warmer weather the business was dropped for the season, the' demand for mutton in Germany not beint very, large. Enquiries were received from' Belgium and German firms who had seen the reports of these shipments: and th« opportunity was taken of placing before them full details of the sanitary and" slaughtering regulations in force m the Dominion, as well as information as t«' the quality, etc. A of New Zealand meat.' AUSTRIA. There has been, unfortunately, r*i ports Mr. Cameron, a set-back m th« importation of frozen meat into Austria, during the official year now closed, tbfti agrarian party in the National Parliament having rejected proposals for th«> unrestricted importation of ovaries meat! and cattle. H.B. Minster in Vienna reported in October last that some ofc the Argentine meat, that had been imported under the temporary pevmissioni had not proved satisfactory to thY people, and no doubt this fact helpedthe agrarians in their action. The 'desiw, of the working^classes for cheaper ioocH is therefore still unsatisfied, and no' further alteration in the Government 11 * 1 , pohcy has been made, or seems likely, for some time. ■