MEAT FROM CHINA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 21 September 1909, Page 2

MEAT FROM CHINA.

COLONIES* NEW RIVAL IN^ THE MEAT TRADE. ' ■ , A.London correspondent, writes undet date August "6th fi- : "." v ': ■*•—* . The first consignment pt t&sen ppifc ever shipped- frojg Qhinft, to which ift. ferenc^ \vj% msae inT last ' week's, letter^' -.. haß been' unloaded from the P. and' O. .--.-.' ' refrigerating steamer Palermo, at ttp jfe'-'. yal Albert Docks, The' consignees ■ ty* now awaiting the " yerdiqV «t -^Be ©orgi^. ' ration. Officer of? He^tk oja't^ cpftfjftfea of. the rij^. \gts u^g^ctio^, i»rHicli' a y^.'-WteHt^i has "exfended ovori aom^ 4ays, as. the utmost care has 'to be tftlte» to prevent' at the outset the opeftinor up of a trade in meat whi.eh fflffet «<£ %» ■.'■ f ree v f rom diseaie^ '.■ : -' F<puf. thoi^ftd sis hundred «nd »'X*y- : threg' Jsozan. carcases of pig* lOim -Mm>' priricwaV.ifcejn'ia Ther«. «« also large coftsTgmnents of poultiy, dees, «ggS, and game. The sftipme** ... travelled well, and; the meat Ti«* itt good ' . . condition, upon arrival. - The fact' that »esou»ces of Chjna were to \fc e»|led upon, to 1 aid irt tasU o| supplying the mea^ markets ia' '.- Itondon was mentioned by- Sir "Shomta Sutherland: the Chafr-maa of the P. and : O; Steam Navigating Companyj at the annuts] meeting of the Company, vOmr h% axwressed the hope that tht» ; first shipment would mark the beginning . of a yery large Chinese. irade, ' "' ..■'"■. The arrryaj in Lojftden of this con- _ shipment -of r|i«zeß carcases ihdfcatw that the SrHish colonies b»ve a new . etimpetiior- to reckon with in the meat market of the Old Country. It is th«. -j. International Export Company. 'wh^.:... have undertaken this en.texprise» The »«-.'•• •.. frigerating and packing plant' of ihii ; company is built upon the most-»pproV-,': " ■.-• ed American plan, and it the pork vca- Jture proves a, suocess eonsignmente ,: o£v.;game wilt follow. The resources _.. of ; . China are unlimited in this connection, .. . and before long Chinese pheasants, ..;.-... quail/snipe, geew, ■eto., will, it is ex- .-; pect-ad. ' be a common: aight in^ Lcndon markets. Importers of colonial meat are awaiting the sate of the Chinese eon. signment before committing themselve* to opinions as to the possibilities of the ■new trade, h»t they aw by no means in. cliqed to pooh-pooh the efforts of this new competitor for a share in the frozen meat trade. A' director of the Colonial 'Consignment and Distributing Com. panvy wjjos^" opinion I sought on Ch«' , suhjeot, declared that it was another *r. , gumeat ; in favour of preferential trading between the Mother Country and the Briflislf Oversea Dominioi^. "I* Bitish trade is to be kept in :.; British L hands," h« said, "it is more than' «ver ' necessary that ■we should have a preferential tariff."