MEAT EXPORT TRADE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22355, 28 February 1936, Page 13

MEAT EXPORT TRADE

MUTTON LESS POPULAR CHILLED BEEF IMPROVES Referring to aspects of the New Zealand meat trade in an address at Carterton, Mr. Pi. S. Forsyth, London manager of the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board, said that the mutton trade was not growing in popularity at present, due to a good extent to the lamb business and to the falling off of good lines of young wethers. Last year 60 per cent of all the mutton that went from New Zealand to England was old ewe mutton, and that was not the sort of meat that the people who bought lamb wanted. Mr. Forsyth said that New Zealand chilled beef was improving every month. Even in competition with Argentina, which had been studying the business for 50 years, New Zealand chilled beef had been able to get within £d per lb. for sides, but prices must get closer than that and must get up to the Argentine level. New Zealand must breed the right beef. There was nothing superior coing to Sinithfield than the quality of New Zealand porkers. Mr. Forsyth said he was satisfied that New Zealand could produce a better baconer than at present, and he felt fairly certain that with a number of experimental shipments a considerable improvement could be made.