THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 7443, 23 December 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

.' TO THE EDITOIi. i .Sm, —"Colonial Fanner" would give Ics ! trouble to himself and your readers if instead cf i further addressing you on this subject 'le had i referred to your issue of :>3al May, in which h's letter of 14th May, not JOth July, appeared. fu it he wrote as follows:— '■ Our trade is confined to London, where again the mill has to |be gone through. Is it wonderful, therefore, though monstrous it certainly is, that the pro- , ducer cannot be assured of 2d per lb for an \ article which' realises within a Fen- -weeks'of ; le.ving his possession Cd to ">.' ; d peril)? Our freezing companies may blink the matter as they will, imt the facts are patent that the American meat trade has been conducted on more profitable and certain lines. If th" London markets were unsuitable, others in the United Kingdom were sought out. and successfully. There are other ports than London—Liverpool for one— which offer facilities for the dispersion of meat to the manufacturing centres, and until there is a threatened or partial withdrawal of the trade from its present channels so long must we suffer the present inflictions.''

But one meaning cau bo attached to the foregoing extract—that, indicated in my letter of 10th July, wherein it was shown what were the actual facts of the ease regarding the disposal of Colonial frozen moat in the United Kingdom. It_ is not needful to traverse the other points raised by your correspondent, as these are in no way relevant; the simple question at issue being to prove the fact that London was not the only market wherein frozen meat was sold, in order to correct the palpable error made by your correspondent. This has been done by *

POMIN'GOI.AIIN-A.

London, October 2-1