FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21921, 3 October 1934, Page 8

FIFTY YEARS AGO

FROZEN MEAT TRADE METHODS OF MARKETING An account of efforts being made 5® years ago to place the New Zetland frozen meat trade with Great Britain on a more remunerative basis and to secure better conditions for marketing is given in the New Zealand Hbraid of October 3, 1884. Commenting a cablegram advising that a shipment of New Zealand mutton was selling in London at 7d per lb.,'"it was stated:— "This sudden rise from ojd, the latest previous quotation, may to some extent have been the result of a special demand in tin? market, but. making allowance for this, there is good reason for concluding that it is to be chiefly accounted for by the fact of the superiority of New Zealand mutton and, in some measure also, to the better arrangements which interested! parties in London have been endeavouring to make for the storage of the article when the demand is limited and for placing it in the market tinder conditions favourable to its profitable disposal. "In the last letter of our London correspondent, some very important information was? furnished respecting the unmethodised way in which the frozen meab of New Zealand was thrown on the market, and the efforts which certain welhknown colonists were making: to iiecure a more profitable distribution, Several meetings of those interested in the - trade have been held under the auspices of the Agent-Gen-eral, leading to the appointment of a committee to wait on the principal merchants and consignees for consultation about the best means for securing a more profitable result to the consignors, by the adoption of a better system of distribution and effecting a reduction in freight and other charges, and resulting finally in the formation of a. council to regulate the suipp > to the demand, to secure and manag a depot for the exclusive storage ® New Zealand mutton, and to do ever was necessary to conduct the t ra more remunerative)v."