NEW ZEALAND LAMB TRADE.

Mataura Ensign, 18 July 1906, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND LAMB TRADE.

AN IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT

Ail Aberdeen paper to hand by the last mail contains the following interesting reference to a branch of the colony's meat export trade in 110 department of the foreign meai trade has there been greater development within recent years than in the importation of what is known as Canterbury lamb, from New Zealand. The lambs, it may bo explained, are killed, dressed and frozen by the Christchurch Meat Company, Christcliurch, New Zealand, afterward shipped in steamers fitted with refrigerators and brought to this company, where they are stored until sold for consumption. While the home-bred lamb is not properly available as a food supply till the months of July find August, the diner-out can still depend upon having his dainty cut of lamb as early as March, as the result of the Canterbury lamb trade, which has now- become! such an important feature in the meat supply of the country. The pioneers of the trade in Scotland were the Messrs Hill Brothers, of Glasgow, who exactly two years ago participated in the lirst direct shipment of frozen meat from New Zealand to the Clyde, their share of the cargo including mo fewer 'than SIXX) Canterbury lambs. The Messrs Hill, who have been selling- 'these lambs direct through their own markets at I many important centres in Scotland for some years, are now pushing directly into the North, having just opened commodious premises 111 151 George street, Aberdeen.