CHILLED MEAT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21280, 6 September 1932, Page 9

CHILLED MEAT

AUSTRALIA'S TRADE BID COMPETITION OF ARGENTINA LONDON, Sept. 4 The agricultural correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, commenting on Australia's attempts to supply chilled meat to Britain, emphasises the deficiency of the quality of Australian cattle compared with the cattle of Argentina, which, he says, has achieved its excellence /through importation of the best pedigreed British bulls. This Australia refuses to do through fear of foot and mouth disease. The writer expresses the opinion that at the present rate of progress of building up the Australian herds, it will take 10 to 15 years before the Argentinian standard is reached. Conversely, he mentions that Australia and New Zealand, through the importation of British strains, have achieved merit in mutton and lamb unknown in the Argentine. Mr. W. M. Hughes, who is staying at Lord Carson's country home in Kent, stated in an interview that during his extended tour of Britain he looked in vain for signs of Australian goods in shop windows outside London. " You can journey all day long in fair-sized towns without finding a shop selling Australian goods," he said. " Thus, in Yorkshire, you would never know that Australia is a part of the Empire. Australian meat is under a cloud, and interested people see to it that it is kept well under, whereas New Zealand lamb cuts quite a respectable figure." Mr. Hughes added that vested interest! must be fought by the best men procurable, backed by adequate finance.