PLENTITUDE OF BRITISH LAMB.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 91, 14 October 1926, Page 13

PLENTITUDE OF BRITISH LAMB.

Writing on the meat market under date f";h September, tho London correspondent or "The Post" quotes the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company to the cll'ect that "considerable supplies of liomc-killed lamb are arriving to the market, which find a fairly ready sale at prices ranging from 7M><l to lOd per lb, according to quality. It is generally thought that large quantities of this description will be available during tho next three to four months, and should this be tho case the demand for tho frozen article may bo expected adversely to be affected." Tho "Financial Times," in its leader column, writes as follows concerning New Zealand's meat exports,:—"The quantity of beef shipped was the smallest for many years, while, owing to tho enormous quantities of Argentine beef sent to England, British market prices were unfavourable. The local Meat Producers' Board mado every effort to help ranchers to market tlieir beef on the Continent, and the shipping companies did their best, to provide tho necessary tonnage, but tho quantity of New Zealand meat which reached Continental ports wan still relatively trivial. Considering the many adverse, conditions witli which the trado had to contend, tho past season's results arc regarded as satisfactory, taking into account the general fall in Iho value;) of almost all commodities. On the British mnrket colonial meat had to face the competition not only of increased supplies of homokilled varieties, due to a good fulteuiuß season, but imports of frozen lambs and mutton from European countries as far apart as Icelaud and Southern Russia. But Now Zealand farmers are not alarmed by this new menace. Groat Britain, they rightly assume, will always give preference to Dominion goods, so long as they aro maintained at v high standard of quality. Aud tho Now Zealand meat producer is fully alive to the importance of preserving one of his greatest assets, tho high reputation tho Dominion's products enjoy on the British market."