Australian Chilled Beef For Home Market
SHIPMENT MAY OPEN UP POSSIBILITIES
United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, Oct. 29.
As a result of the Port Fairy’s successful shipment of Australian meat importers are keenly discussing the possibilities of the establishment of a rogular trade in chilled beef.
One of the chief obstacles to a satisfactory profitable trade is the difficulty of securing suitable beef. One expert points out that if Australian breeders hope successfully to compete with Argentina they must improve the quality of their herds. They have now a golden opportunity of doing so most advantageously, because high-class pedigree stock can be bought at a wonderfully cheap price. At a sale of the famous Collynie stud stock, near Aberdeen recently, the average price realised was £55 for bulls, £29 for heifers, as compared with about £7OO for bulls six or seven years ago. Canada has bought heavily in view of the possible benefits from the Ottawa agreements. Further important stock sales are being held at Birmingham, Perth and Aberdeen in February,
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6993, 1 November 1932, Page 7
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