NEW ZEALAND MEAT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 103, 12 April 1933, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND MEAT

LONDON DEALER’S COMMENT. OPINIONS UPON BEEF. Visiting Wellington at present is Mr Frederick Hutson, of London, who is a retail dealer in meat with shops all round the outskirts of the Metropolis. He is a considerable buyer of New Zealand meat. Mr Hutson has, by tho very nature of his business, a knowledge of the Smithfield markets, and is in daily touch with the public. While in Australia Mr Hutson visited several of the large meat works which were experimenting in the shipping of chilled beef to London and actually saw some of it shipped on the Mooltan. “In my experience the journey from Australia to London is too far for the chilling process,’’ said Mr Hutson to the “Dominion.’’ “What I saw at Smithfield was enough for me. I was thinking of buying some, but it turned out so bad that we could not touch it. That was six months ago. I have had no experience of New Zealand chilled beef, so can pass no opinion on it. “I have handled some New Zealand frozen beef, though. It was not so bad, but you will have to improve the quality a good deal to compete on all fours with the Argentine beef. “Last year I handled 500 carcases of your frozen pork. There again the quality could be improved, but all the same I had no complaints about it.’’ Mr Hutson will be iu New Zealand for another five or six weeks.