DOMINION MEAT EXPORT.
PROSPECTS OF TRADE WITH UNITED STATES. OFFICIAL INSPECTION OF WORKS. _ [PEESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM] . AUCKLAND, July 29. The removal of the tariff bar which has been maintained bv the United States-against meat products will pro. bablv have an important effect upon the frozen meat industry of New Zealand. All official inspection of the frozen meat -industry in the Dominion is to bo made on behalf of the Government of the United States by Dr. A. D. Melville, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry in the United States. Advice of Dr. Melville’s visit- has been re'ceivcd by Mr W. IT. Prickitt (Consul-General for the United States) The Prime Minister has informed Mr Prickitt that every facility will bo granted Dr. Melville* to obtain the information he requires. Dr. Melville, will leave Washington for the Dominion in about a fortnight. The prospect of developing trade in frozen meat with the United States is described as promising by Mr Alexander Lucas, a member of* the Canadian Royal Commission on Agriculture, who arrived in Auckland to-dav He mentioned that of the recent shipment of 1200 tons of frozen mutton from New Zealand to Vancouver 600 tons were immediately transported to Seattle, in the State of’ Washington
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3997, 30 July 1913, Page 4
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