THE MARKING OF FROZEN MEAT.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 25, 16 September 1893, Page 3

THE MARKING OF FROZEN MEAT.

Our special correspondent while travelling in London road the 'following letter in one of the papers. It is on a subject, of great importance to everyone in Southland, and he therefore sent it along:—“ Sir, —Under this heading appears a paragraph in your columns to-day. As a dealer in foreign meats a few remarks of mine may not be out of place. It suggested that a remedy has been found, a satisfactory one, that by the aid of electricity foreign meatcau oc stamped, ami the whole difficulty at once solved. I say by all means let the process come into operation at once, inasmuch as ths public will then purchase double the amount of foreign beef and mutton at a proper price—knowing as I do, that the foreign meat is far in advance cf half the English meat soldpu the market to-day. Speaking from my own point of view, I would rather pay the English price for foreign meat, than I would purchase English meat at foreign price. Comparisons are odious ; give me foreign meat. It is a pity that men like Lord Onslow, the Marquis of Huntly, Earl Stanhope, Lord Winchclsea, and the rest,"cannot find better employment than to try to injure a trade that brings comfort and luxury to thousands of her Majesty’s subjects, who would be now craving for the taste of meat if it were not for the foreign supply. It is simply a Tory cry of “ protection.” T. Summeeton. Shipston-on-Stour, June 28.