MORE MARKETS.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1427, 15 November 1923, Page 3

MORE MARKETS.

FOR NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE. Great Britain is the world's market place. From every corner of the globe railways and steamships are rushing in the products of the soil, and the wonderful old Motherland seems, notwithstanding her days of depression, to l.e able to consume all that is dumped into her ports, and then to have room for more. In his latest report to the Meat Board, the general manager (Mr J. Fraser) mentions a number of countries which are now sending produce to London, and among them are, of course, Denmark, France, Finland, Switzerland, and the United States, to which are now added Mongolia and Patagonia, both of \vh\dh are sending mutton, which may come into quite serious competition with our own products at no distant date. Mr Fraser comments on the latter country: "I have seen some isolated lots of Patagonian lambs, which were certainly not to be despised, and show what a dangerous rival we have in Patagonia, where in parts, especially near Punta Arenas, the country is not unlike our own, having at one time ebeen heavily timbered."' In view of this possibility, and the extreme improbability of Great Britain granting a preferential tax on foodstuffs, it is just as well that the Meat Board is on the watch for other markets, and Mr Fraser points out that the shipment of frozen lambs to Boston and New York is a matter which the Board, ever since its inception, has been endeavouring to develop. The investigations and inquiries he made show that if we are to successfully develop this market when the opportunity comee we must for a start send only small consignments and at regular intervals, taking care that our shipments do not clash with the Americans' own domestic lambs. He points out that the Americans are not very partial to frozen meat, but says. " The quality of our lambs may overcome this. I noted that more is at present a campaign instituted by Swifts in the United States to try and induce people to eat more lamb, very much on the same lines as our ' Eat more beef campaign. The American meat is principally beef and pork. The number of pigs raised is enormous and the supply keeps pace with the increasing population, being inexhaustible."