MEAT AND MANCHESTER.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1151, 23 March 1894, Page 5

MEAT AND MANCHESTER.

There is an idea abroad that the supplies of food produced in these colonies have overtaken the British demand. It is nothing more than the usual idea of those timid minds who never can take wide views. When the meat trade began, the wise men said that it would exhaust the stock of the Colony in a couple of 3-ears. When, after thirteen years, the stock are more numerous than ever, and the exports as high as ever they were, the cry is " don't overdo it." The fact is that the producing power of this country is, so far as anyone can ascertain it from present data, incalculable. We must in consequence find an unlimited demand. The South of England is our principal market at present, but large as is the supply wo send there, that market cannot be said to have been more than touched. The activity of the Manchester merchants is beginning to show the world that we have not yet even begun to touch the great Northern markets with our meat produce. We have lines of steamers which are feeling the pressure of competition uncommonly hard. It ought not to be long before some of their flags will be seen in the Manchester Canal. Should their owners all permit the new markets to fall to some new line of boats, it will be a great disgrace to their enterprise.