FROZEN MEAT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 13 June 1925, Page 5

FROZEN MEAT

N.Z. DISH.AY AT WEMBLEY The .New Zi'.-i iti nil Meat. Producers 1 b :>r,| htis just received n most interesting lettiu- ft oni its i.ondutt manager, dealing'with a description of the Hoard s exhibit of frozen meat atW i'ttili', v Exhibition Ibis year. "I have to ail vise that the consignments of meal for Wembley have arrived, and that they have turned out iti very good order. Ihe lamb and mutton have turned out in beautilul condition, and. although the quality of last season's was practically perfect, 1 think the meat this year is even better, "The Exhibition opens to-morrow, and uiir meat exhibit is completely ready, and 1 think we shall make a very good' show. In the general meat cabinet, we are making a very fine display, in a different form from last year in order to get variety. 1 have, got tho same man, Mr Wurth, to set it up tvs last year, and he- has made a very good job i f it indeed. It has taken 180 lambs and 75 slice]), ns well as 20 quarters of beef and seven pigs, so we shall have t very good show of meat. Wart It, in his spare time, has also made with a. penknife a miniature butcher s shop, complete with motor vans and delivery carts. The. whole is made out of back fat, and discloses miniature quartet's of beef, carcases of mutton, lamb, and pork, and it looks most realistic. The* shop is lit up with electric light, and nj my .suggestion it is labeU-H ‘N.Z. Lamb, Family Butcher.’ I ant sure it will all raei a good deal of attention, 'and will be the ne'iias of drawing more pronlr In look at our meat exhibit. "As already advised you, Messrs Fraser and Scott, the New Zealand artists wliu are responsible for ail the scenic work in the New Zealand section this year, have completed the new scenery for the lamb cabinet, and have made a very good job of it indeed. Tt. is a wonderful improvement on the scenery Wi had last yeti)-. T have arranged for I t,e spinning gear to he again installed, at.it as the two larger sides of the scenery have moving gadgels, one'a flack of sheep being droven through the paddeck's, and the other a railway train with meal vans, suitably inscribed with 'New Zealand Lamb. New Zenjaud Aiuttr.Ti. and New Zealand Beef.’ I am tune tin- special lamb cabinet will attract a lot of attention, " Liter T shall endeavour to obtain photographs of c.ut meat exhibit to send out t,. you." LETTER FROM SOUTH AMERICA The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board hits irOeivcd the following letter from its. South American representative, dated 15th April, 1925: — ' Best quality fat cattle have maintained their price since T last wrote yi>tif Boat'd, and in several eases higher prices than those quoted in this letter have been received for well finished lots in the local cattle market, where as high as 7.29 per kilo live weight- has been obtained. Values of the Continental grade of beef have been better maintained titan was expected, and pi ices are similar to last month’s. There is a large offering of flic plainer quality eattle though good stuff is ■seai'ce and likely to he dearer. Owners are trying to dispose of all the cattle they have in condition before the winter causes such animals to become thin and unsaleable. Store cattle are in good demand and values maintained as also are breeding cattle. "Pasture has come away wonderfully all over tip; country, though there are sente districts where the locusts ate the glass or alfalfa so badly* that the plants have been poisoned and the ground will have to be resown. The past seasi n was one of the worst- on record for the depredations of the locusts, and considerable areas of the best feeding zones of the country were lost am" seine large owners had to dispose ot the good class of feeding cattle as they had no pasture to feed them on. "’I here are some districts in the south of the Province of Buenos Aires where the eattle are very thin at this season of the year—the beginning of winter—and if severe weather be experienced jarge numbers of such beasts will die. These are instances of the renditions in particular parts of the country though the general ei-ndi lion.-', at the beginning of winter are mill'll better Ilian rntil'l lr*vo Vw.-rii e\ perlnl. "Sheep.- There is a better demand for ail classes of sheep, though large numbers have heen scut to the local market. 1 expect to have the numbers slaughtered in the Southern plants to ‘-end by next, month’s letter, though 1 hear a large number of plain quality unfinished sheep, have Irvn killed. "Shipment of live rattle to Europe h.uv practically stopped svilt « pi in ' are : -Chitlet:'. 6.914 per kilo live weight : freezers 6.53 d to 6.63 d ; CentincTital, 6.1-Id; chiller cows. F.‘>id ; tanner sleet'. 3.844; cows, cannetr, 3.26 dto 3.46,1. Sheep, hoggets, 9.004 to 10.174 per lb dead ; wethers, 7.2 yd to 7.684 ; ewes. 6.53 d to 6 914 "Exchange *7,12.50 t . the Ft . tor 1i n a