The Star. FRIDAY, DEC EMBER 7, 1883.
Tub __o__n -.mo __oh ex Garonne, whioh was ' stored is consequence of the " glutted " market) has not sold much the better for the . delay. It only fetohediSid to s_d per pound. '._he exc_se <is that •it was too tfat ! Any _xcui_ is _aid rio- be i better than -none, but aurely something a little 'less improvable than this might havetbeen manufactured. "Butchers •re not as a, -alo .remarkable for tbo development of the imaginative faoulties, so that we only lay to this 'deficiency the absurdity of auoh an allegation. To any one what knows what Engliah .mutton ia-__ti_oiaUy fed — taking little or no -exercise — the idea that cheep -fed on the natural pastures of Australia, where they have'to travel all day long for feed in a hot climate, are too fat for .he English market, is aimpiy laughable. The fact ie that the .wholesale dealers, and large butchers, have formed a ring, and seeing that it will not pay to _-ep Australian and New Zealand mutton artifloially _ro_en for amy great length of. tune, they have deter*> mined to give no more than a oertain fixed, j and very low prioe for it There must be '• wholesale and .retail depflts .established in j London, and in til the large towns also, for the sale of frozen meat; or the profits -of the .enterprise will go for the most part to the middlemen at Houea. Until something of the kind ia done, onr cargoes will be entirely at the meroy of the middlemen, who will give not a farthing more <_ura will just pay the importers. All the largo profits, and all the probabilities of reducing ihe prioe of moat for the benefit of our poorer fellow-oountrjnaen in Britain will be lost.
The Star. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1883.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 4869, 7 December 1883, Page 3
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