Tinned Beef Market

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 144, 20 June 1936, Page 12

Tinned Beef Market

GOOD OPENING IN JAPAN Prospects for a good market in Japan for New Zealand tinned beef are considered bright by Mr. Y. Yoneda, managing director of the Yamashita Kisen Ivaisha Shipping Line, who arrived in Wellington .by the Monowai recently, accompanied by Mr. M. Suzuki, who is also connected with the company.

“There should be a good market in Japan for New Zealand beef, not fresh beef but corned beef in tins, and not small tins but large tins,” he said. Mr. Yoneda admitted that he was not very keen on meat himself, but that his children preferred it to the fish diet which had been customary in Japan for hundreds of years. Such was the general state of Japan, which was turning to the meat diet, he said.

Another thing he considered to be important to New Zealand was that the increasing use of European clothes in Japan had led to the greatly increase cd use of wool for material. Mr. Yoneda said he was confident that the quality of goods manufactured in Japan now would give much better satisfaction in New Zealand, as the Japanese Government had taken stringent measures to prevent the production of shoddy articles. There was also the rising standard in the domestic demand, which, in turn, was leading to better quality becauso the articles had to be manufactured to satisfy the home consumption. * Mr. Yoneda visited New Zealand last year in the interests of a direct shipping line between Japan and New Zealand.' This time he has come to try to increase the trade between the two countries. His first ship had a full cargo, and his second will be practically full. So far, the cargoes' have consisted of wool, hides and casein. Japan was also importing a fair quantity of dried milk from the Dominion. “ Meat Prices. The Meat Trades Journal publishes a table showing the prices of meat on the first Monday of the year and for comparison what were current at the corresponding period of 1935. In beef there are only two classes which show a rise— Australian frozen hinds 11 per cent., and New Zealand frozen hinds 5 per cent. Mutton in every case is down from 9.5 per cent to 16.2 per cent., the latter in Australian wethers, while New Zealand wethers are orie the same level as last year— 3/D per stone of 81bs. Scotch hill lambs were .making 10Jd per lb; New Zealand (including new season) 7id; Australian Argentine 7d. Pork from Australia and New Zealand was. higher by 10 per cent, and 8 per cent, respectively, both selling at GJd; best English under SOlbs B|d.