OUR FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 19, 14 September 1912, Page 4

OUR FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

IX PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Berlin, September 13. The newspapers announce, on the authority ot Merr Hendoch, the soualled Australian Consul, that a hundred thousand frozen sheep will bo nought from Adelaide to Hamburg, and meat steamers afterwards will leave fortnightly. The shipments will be sold at l£d per lb below fresh meat. A French company has undertaken &he inland transport, and necessary cold storago exists. The agrarian newspapers are attacking the silipmeufcs, declaring that frozen meat is tough, insipid, deficient in nuivriinent and swal'tning with deleterious microbes. "The Times' " Berlin correspondout has reported that Herr Holhveg's conference decided that the freezing industry is so highly developed that a large amount of frozen meat from Australia and Argentina will pass, whatever examination the law requires. Therefore, the rules will not bo relaxed.