NEW ZEALAND MUTTON. TO THE EDITOR.

North Otago Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 6631, 2 May 1888, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND MUTTON. TO THE EDITOR.

Rut,— -Enolund ploj«t> ta el extrnot from Pflrlisnoontsry doings in London. It tnav intornt «oro», And 10 far •• I know h*i not beoo r«fm«d to by oolonia' jniirm-h It Jb a oommon oompl«iut th^t New Zro, I*nd mutton in nof<J b/ r»t<ii|«r« an B»itt«h — qwory, «noy not that b« thn rnaoon why Ihe m*at fetoha* tb« rrloo, though mod* «r«t», th»t it do«g? P rh*p«»o r«t*il on If* mtriti r« Now Zi'nlnnd, it noald not etknd tho vfholtffila prlo», r.nd it oertufnly OAn b« no diusdTftntf-gf to ahippnrt Hint colonial mo«t If noil •* British, Another quorjr : «»nnot Now Z^nUnrl tnutfon be brandod in oorait wny 1 What if »nme mio of g'tiliu iraraort«Hicd hlaaielf by in* ■ertlnp nsntly and daftly, h*re and thcr« in the rolling f«t of *b« w*ll fod osros 8, » Wte tin plute, or weo', nnvtbUig, m^y i' pl«a«oyon, i^wp^d "N.ZI" llow woahl that not ? That ml^ht bt« thn mtam of briodfiDg toothsconely to British g'lurmanda th« f»ot thitt tbo nlo« j »lot th<->y «o r«liab«<3, aud 1 Id tha boueit fatnliy butebtrs bill ohargnd fii Br}i|«h, tr^a no'ually good gran* feed Now Z-mlau'] mutton. Eron tbatmauS»la hadthelnfiolio •ot>doio«naion io admit th»t thoso nio-' iuicy, pluoop loin ebops, grilUd, you Know, na only a nmi of «xperi-<noo lik himsalf could imagiHo, ware rtolly y«ry good. And from what ona o«n gather, by putting together tb« sorßpf nhio<t bnre referred to tbut bnmbld inHifidual's power of putting obopa and oth«r tasty vlandi avfi»y, he oudjhfc to b» oornpct«nt t» Mpress a» opinion, Why, therefore, should doi Nffw ZeMflad ebippori inakn h ktand, and mak« the curotoea boldly rott on tb«lr (oar a'umps, by tftktn^r thoie precautionary m^asurcß whi«h Brltiih legitlatloQ baa put in their pay a 1

Tkottkks. " TPort ign Beef «od the Mi-torn. tilo Marks Aot.— Mr Charles Griy «k,d whether offering for a*l« rod ifokrlng foreign room ft* British vr»« »n itifrl»earnoot of the M^rohaudlio Murk* Act und«r olamo 3 (b) relfttlug to ' the country in which Any <joo<\s were pro-dacef).'—-Sir M. Hlok -Bead) «i»ld it wan an (ff noo under the Aot to apply a false trtd* description to t»ny goodi either direoUy or iudlreody as lo the plno^ wf oro goodf vrero made or produced, Tne Urm 'good*' iooladed iv it iny»hin« which w«b tho oubjucn of rr»do (choor*),"