Frozen Meat.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4676, 21 June 1893, Page 2

Frozen Meat.

TO THB SDITOB. Sm,~l should like to remove the cloud that must have fallen on some exporters of frozen meat on reading the cable message in the Star saying that Mr Black, of Queensland, had told a Committee of the House of Lords that ifc was difficult to detect the difference between Australian frozen mutton and American chilled meat. ■ I think if Mr Black had ever seen a carcase of American chilled mutton, he would have formed a very different opinion. Does he mean, I wonder, that it is difficult to tell the difference between Australian frozen mutton and American chilled beef P If he had said it was difficult to detect the difference between American chilled mutton and American chilled beef, I should not have been surprised, for the chilling makes both look very much alike. I was employed in cutting for the American Fresh Meat Company, the largest butchers in the world; a large number of American chilled sheep four years before any New Zealand mutton arrived in England. Since then I have had thousands of New Zealand, Australian, River Plate and Falkland Island sheep through my hands. I should think a child could tell the difference between Australian mutton and American meat. I must say the American meat arrives a good deal cleaner than any other meat. It would be a good thing for New Zealand if Plate and Falkland Island mutton were marked, as it is constantly passed off on the public as New Zealand mutton, to which it is far inferior. — I am, &c, YANKEE TIGER.