QUEENSLAND MEAT AND DAIRY TRADE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 2501, 10 August 1893, Page 2

QUEENSLAND MEAT AND DAIRY TRADE.

Interviewed lately by a deputation, tbe Premier of Queensland said that a bill with the object of encouraging the export of meat and dairy produce waa no<v being framed. Ha would grant from a fund raised for the purpose of assessment on stock one-half of the capital required ior the necessary buildings and machinery, the other half being raised by the parties making the application for tbe coney. The money would be lent at 5 per ceDt. interest, but no interest would be paid daring the first five years. After tbat time, when tbe bnsioess was folly established, the companies, or whoever bad a Joan of tbe money, wonlS commence to pay it back on terms which would have to be arranged. He would grant tbe same privileges to private individuals as to companies. He proposed to divide the funds into two, a meat fond and a dairy fund, and be expects to get about £60,000 yearly for the former and d£SO,OCJ for tbe latter by a charge of Is 6d per hundred oo sheep and 15s per hundred on cattle. He thought the termini of the railways should be the place where refrigerators should be erected, and in the loan estimates for this year he bad set apart a certain sum for refrigerating oars for the conveyance of meat over tbe railway line, which work tbe Government would undertake outside the funds altogether. Tbe Government nonld also undertake tbe erection of refrigerating chambers as tbe port of shipment.