THE FROZEN MEAT TEADE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5388, 14 August 1885, Page 3

THE FROZEN MEAT TEADE.

THE VIEWS OP BASIL HODGES.

Some important and interesting information with regard to the probable development of the frozen meat trade between Ne«r Zealand and this country was given the other evening at the Canterbury Farmers' Club, by Mr Basil Hodges of Vincent, near Margate, a well known Kent agriculturalist, who has just returned from a six months' tour of the Australian Colonie3. In the main, of course, his lecture consisted of facts well known to you, but there was one observation which Btruck me as worth reproducing. Mr Hodges eaid that in future some of the principal shippers meant to freeze and send Home not whole carcases, but hind-quarters only. They proposed to cut the sheep in two, sell the fore-quarters to the tinnedmeat establishments, and freeze the hindquarters only. It appeared that for putting in tins the fore-quarters were more valuable. They cut up better and made better tinned meat than the hind-quarters. These shippers claimed, too, that by freezing the hind-quarters only they would put a larger amount of meat into a given space and thus reduce the coat of importation, whilst they also expected to be able to dispose of the divided carcase to greater advantage and thus carry on their industry in a larger way and at a greater profit.