EXPORT OF FROZEN NEAT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 60, 12 March 1906, Page 4

EXPORT OF FROZEN NEAT.

A SERIOUS DECLINE

Last year there was a considerable decline in our export of frozen meat, amounting to no less than 233,054 carcases, as compared with the year,,1904. In 1905 British importations increased by 406,183 carcases of mutton and 544,387 carcases of lamb, sq'that it cannot be said that our trade fell off for lack of demand. As a'matter,of fact, most of the increased supply was sent from Australia, but the Argen- ; tine Republic also added to its export; by 265,509 carcases, or rather morje" than the decrease suffered by |Siew Zealand. . Pf - . ':•">

The "New Zealand Tin^s" ' ■■tfa'ys that tlie figures show a,Jstate of things which calls '/for t}ie': serious attention of the Government. Have our sheep farmers reached the. limit of production, or is the market* being taken from them'-by tlieiv-enterprising rivals in Australia and the .#gentiiie? the paper asks. It ajgo rfj&erts that more Government conxme'rfcial agents are required1 in EjtgianC and the Cabinet onglit at orfce to" give earnest consideration to thisijuestion.