MEETING RE FROZEN MEAT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXII, Issue 7414, 3 December 1884, Page 2

MEETING RE FROZEN MEAT.

A meeting, convened by advertisement, wfm held »t tli# A,, anil I*. A*wflalte«'» room*. #1 II a. mi. on Nov. 17, to take Into consideration the prawn! im»»il«faetory manner of disputing of frown satMl in London. and to devise plan by which |h# trade could ta plneed on a sound mini satisfactory b««i». About thirty gentle* men whro |r###ufc, and Mr 3. C. w«*on wa« voted to the chair. The Chairman wild that they had met at the invitation of the Hon W. 8. IMer and Mr 0. Clifford, who hm Juatreturned from the old country, vbwe they hn& toon inquiring very cleanly into the present im■atMMtofylltßte of the fiwcn meat trade. Ho doubt Uw» pm* would Uat#n*tt#n; lively to these gentlemen. and would dkaibtiw® learn from them what w»* need* £l in order to put the trade on a more saWafactory bail*. ■ ' :,th«,genW«nM>» referred to gave the re*

suit of tlwrfr ettiptlriftt Into the ftruren <n«at trade at Home, the information being similar to what bo# bw« published from time to time from our London correspondent.

After some disrussion. It wan preposod by Mr lianee, and seconded by Mr oat»»wtl—"That the present state of the distribution of frown meat in England being very unsAtlsfActory this meeting Appoints n snh-Committee, onmd'tfng of the Hons W. 8, Peter, E. Parker, and Messrs Clifford, A<'lon-,Vdftuta and 11. P. 1 Alice, to consider the matter and report to nu adjourned meeting, nnd that Hut Committee be especially requested to consider the feasibility of securing a depAt for Hut separate sale and storage of New Zealand meat alone, and to confer with the Fresco Meat Companies throughout Now Zealand with the view of carrying mit that object." After some furth-w desultory move coition. the motion was earth'd and the meeting adjourned.