FROZEN MEAT.
Mr Henry Alfred Kingswell, a London butcher, writing to the New Zealand Times about the Dunedin's shipment of frozen mutton, says : —
Ist. It is the best of any frozen meat ever brought into London, for the following reasons:—lt is the least stained, there is no superfluity of fat, it is not frozen hard. 2nd. It has fetched the highest price of any mutton yet imported. The sheep have fetched on an average 6£d per lb., or slightly over, after making allowance for damaged ones. Lambs have fetched Sd and 9d per lb.
3rd. The consignees should have' someone belonging to the Company in the market to keep check on,the agents and salesmen's clerks, for the expenses of the salesmen are very heavy, some not less than £60 per week.
4th. This is the sole cause of the American senders going bankrupt, in my opinion ; and as they have thoroughly established the, frozen meat trade, and have had to bear the brunt of the prejudices of the_ people— which I can assure you was not a little — the New Zealand companies have nothing to do but to walk into a good payable claim which has been abandoned for the want of plant, and so reap the heaviest dividends a company ever paid in this line of business.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1602, 5 August 1882, Page 14
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