MEAT PRESERVING

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2505, 19 March 1930, Page 7

MEAT PRESERVING

NEW INDUSTRY IN FIJI

PROSPECTS FOR DAIRYING (Per Pres s Association) Auckland, March 18. Mr George B. Hopper, formerly manger of the Wellington Meat Export Co., after two years in Fiji a 3 manager of a meat preserving company established on a 100,000 acre estate whore beef is bred for the finned industry, says Fiji couM not carry on the meat industry with the class of cattle it had. New Zealand ex purs had nothing |o fear from the island ompotition. Though the imparted article was handicapped by a duty of 3d per pound, the people of Fiji preferred it. Local tinned meats were inferior in quality to imported merits. T'.f? cattleo were small of stature, and not suited for preserving. The prospects for dairying, however, looked very good. The Taileva factory was producing some of tho finest butter in the world.