MUTTON FOR SWITZERLAND

Southland Times, Issue 16692, 22 March 1911, Page 5

MUTTON FOR SWITZERLAND

EIBST AUSTRALIAN SHIPMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright). SYDNEY. March 21. Received March 21, 9.30 p.m. The first parcel of frozen mutton from Australia to Switzerland Is being shipped by the steamer Essex. The Swiss authorities have given permission to make the importation, which consists of 500 specially selected carcases. They are being sent via London and Antwerp by the Colonial Meat Export Company. Air Hughes, managing director of the Company, in urging the importance of opening new markets, states that a single market is easily over-supplied, this making it easy to manipulate prices below a profitable shipping level. Referring to present low prices in London, he suggested that they were possibly due to Home distributors anticipating early large supplies of Australian meat as the result of a good season; but it was more likely to be due to the methods adopted by the Americans, who had captured seventy per centum of the Argentine trade, their motto being "First spoil the market at the consuming centre; then consumer and producer will be at your mercy.”