New Zealand Meat on the Continent.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 40, 13 September 1887, Page 4

New Zealand Meat on the Continent.

Ths following extract from the Hamburger Nachrichten of Bth Jnly gives us some highly important information as to what is being done in the direction of, popularising New Zealand meat on the Continent “ A joint stock company has recently been formed in Antwerp with Mr Isterreith, a German merchant, as chairman. The object is to introduce Australian frozen meat into Belgium and other countries. The first consignment, comprising 10,000 frozen sheep, has already arrived from New Zealand in Antwerp. The company has built 14 ice chambers, intended to hold 2000 sheep each, and the mutton is sold at 1.15 francs per kilo, and 1.50 francs per kilo for legs of mutton. On the 4th July the freezing chambers and other establishments of the company were opened with a great deal of ceremony. The company also owns steamers specially built for the purpose of carrying frozen meat. The vossische Zeitung one of the best-read Berlin papers, bestows great praise on the frozen meat, and describes it as exceedingly tender. The meat being frozen comes under the heading of conserves on the Customs tariff, and is therefore exempt from duty.’ A kilo or kilogramme being the French metric equivalent for 2 l-sth lbs avoirdupois nearly, the above prices translated into English would mean about 5Jd per lb ordinary joints, and 7? for legs, which must be considered very satisfactory returns. It is to be hoped that the enterprise thus auspiciously begun will be carried out to its legitiinate success, as it cannot fail to impart a great stimulus to the already fastexpanding trade of the colonies."