NEW ZEALAND BEEF.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 203, 11 August 1927, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND BEEF.

THE ABSENCE OF DEMAND. QUESTION OF APPEARANCE. ’I can understand now way there Is no price offering for New Zealand beef,” writes Mr Allan Matthews in a letter to his parents, Mr and Mrs Chas. Matthews of Gisborne. ‘We haven’t a ghost of a chance against the Argentine with its chilled beef. They say that there is very little difference between them when eoolred; but it is the look of it when it is being exhibited for sale. The chilled stuff stll has its nice fresh bloom, while the frozen has the dull stalelook about it. “I compared carcases of chilled with English fresh beef and in some cases there seemed to be very little difference. There must be a gieat opening in the Argentine for caitleraising. I saw hundrds of three-year-old carcases which were bigger and fatter than our New Zealand prime six and seven-year-old bullocks. So it stands to reason that the cost of production must be much less over there. It is a recognised fact that they import the best stock in the world.' hut apart from that they must have great grazing country. They tell me this was only an average sample of their beef.

“The lamb market, however, is all right, as the Argentine can hardly influence us at all. The pork industry should do well in the future. I did not see any pork from New Zealand, but the buyers seem to think that only New Zealand pork should be in demand over here.”

Mr Matthews explains that he was taken round Smithfield market by MrRobertson, produce manager for the Bank of New Zealand, and learned everything about marketing. “I saw hanging up there some of the carcases of lamb which I saw being loaded on to the Port Victoria at Gisborne.” he writes. “They came from the Kaiti works.”—Poverty Bay “Herald.”)