NEW ZEALAND MEAT IN EUROPE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10782, 2 June 1911, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND MEAT IN EUROPE.

GOOD PROSPECTS OF A MARKET. (Per Piikss Association.) Christchurch, Juno 1. The prospects of the Continental meat markets being thrown open to New Zealand producers were discussed on Wednesday by the Hon. T. Mackenzie in the course of an interview with a reporter. Mr Mackenzie said that he had received a. good many communications 011 the subject, and he firmly believed that it was only a matter of time before the markets would lie opened to outside producers. "Speaking personally," Mr Mackenzie said, "the meat supply of the world is not increasing; in fact, it is diminishing. According to the latest statistics 1 have had there are 2,400,000 fewer cattle, 8,000,000 fewer pigs, and 21,000,000 fewer sheep. America, is exporting only about half the beef she exported a few years ago. On the other hand the Argentine has increased its export very considerabl\', replacing the diminished output from the United States. In France, Germany, Russia, and other Continental countries the flocks and herds have gone down in numbers, and in order to supplement their meat supplies the companies are buying horses, dogs, asses, in addition to that they are sterilising diseased meat and selling it to the working people. -Meat in Germany is divided into throe classes—(l) Sound, (2) partly sound, (3) diseased parts cuts from partly sound meat and sterilised at 212 degrees. They are actually sterilising parts which are cancerous or affected with tuberculosis, and selling them to the people for food. It is not likely that the working people of Germany will stand much longer being forced to eat such stuff. Anstraia admitted a good deal of meat from the Argentine, but after the two shipments had arrived it was found that there was a secrettreaty with Hungary which required Hungary's consent- to the admission of imported meat, and the Act authorising the importations was supended. •Progress is being made in Portugal, Italy, and Switzerland either by lessening the tariff or, as in the case of Portugal, taking away the tariff altogether. Industrially the Continent is now very prosperous, as also is England, and that is placing more money in the hands of the wage earners for the purchase of better food." • y