DOMINION IN FOREFRONT

Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1934, Page 7

DOMINION IN FOREFRONT

CHILLED BEEF TRADE.

AUSTRALIANS’ NOTICE.

Auckland, May 29.

“We look upon New Zealand as being in the forefront of the chilled beef trade to-day,” said Major J. T. Smith, of the New South Wales Graziers’ Association, who is travelling to Suva by the Niagara. “Your Dominion has a good reputation in that market, and . Australia is taking the matter up seriously with a view to entering into the trade on a larger scale. “This will mean that graziers will have to alter their methods, and also the class of cattle they run. The big, roomy, aged beast is to be supplanted by young, small-jointed, early maturing, highquality beef stock, but it is difficult to convince farmers that they must change, and that change will be for their good.” In time, continued Major Smith, they hoped to produce a class similar to that bred in New Zealand for the export trade in chilled beef. With that in view the country was importing a great number of Herefords and Aberdeen Polled Angus cattle from New Zealand and Scotland. Three years ago these breeds had been virtually unknown in New South Wales, but at this year’s Royal Show there had been a fine parade of Aberdcens. He thought it would be some time before New Zealand, and later Australia, would make a considerable impression on England’s chilled beef imports from the Argentine. That countryhad supplied satisfactorily for such a long time that newcomers on the market would find it “hard pegging,” however good their qwlity.