MEAT PRODUCERS

Southland Times, Issue 20011, 27 October 1926, Page 5

MEAT PRODUCERS

THE HOME MARKET PROSPECTS FOR CHILLED BEEF TRADE ADDRESS BY BOARD’S LONDON MANAGER (Per United Press Masterton, October 26. Mr Forsyth, London manager for the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, addressed a meeting of producers in Masterton today on marketing and the general conditions at 'Home. He strongly stressed the importance of jealously guarding the high standard of quality and paying particular attention to the growing of the right type of carcape required and to grading. The. Argentine, whose mutton was laughed at a few years ago, was making a big effort to improve the quality and was also developing lamb production. After thawing out, however, New Zealand meat was better finished. The board had been closely watching the handling of the meat and the loading of all New Zealand meat was done under supervision of the hoard’s inspector. Mr Forsyth elaborated on the excellent, quality of the Argentine chilled beef and declared that it would - be a doubtful proposition for New Zealand to enter this trade. Chilled beef had to be consumed soon after arrival, hence supplies to the market had to be judged to within a few hundred carcases per week. He considered that trade with West of England ports could not be developed owing to lack of distributing facilities and mentioned the case of one New Zealand company which consigned 29,000 carcases to a West of England port 75 per cent of which had later to be railed to Smithfield for sale.