MARKET FOR MEAT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19469, 27 October 1926, Page 12

MARKET FOR MEAT.

HIGH QUALITY ESSENTIAL. COMPETITION AND EXPANSION. [by telegraph.—press association.] MASTEBTON. Tuesday. Tho London manager for the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board, Mr. H. D. Forsyth, addressed a meeting of producefs in Masterton to-day on marketing and general conditions in England. He strongly emphasised the importance of jealously guarding the high standard of quality and paying particular attention to the growing of the right typo of rarcaso and to grading. INIr. Forsyth said that Argentina, whoso mutton was laughed at a few years ago, was making a big effort, to improve the quality and was also developing lamb production. After thawing out, however, New Zealand meat was be#.tef finished. The board had been closely watching the handling of meat and the unloading of all New Zealand meat was done under the supervision of the board's inspector. Mr. Forsyth referred to the excellent quality of Argentine chilled beef and said it would bo a doubtful proposition for New Zealand to enter this trade. Chilled beef had to be consumed soon after arrival and supplies to the market had to be judged to within a few hundred carcases per week. He considered that trade with West of England ports could not develop owing to lack of distributing facilities. He mentioned the case of one New Zealand company which consigned 29,000 carcases to a West of Englaod port and 75 per cent, had later to he raifed to Smithfield for sale.