N.Z. MUTTON IN AMERICA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13339, 30 March 1911, Page 4

N.Z. MUTTON IN AMERICA.

It is interesting to hear that there is a growing future for the dairy industry trade between the Dominion and the Old Land,.and it is equally pleasurable to note that our frozen mutton is spoken well of in America, where the high prices of locally-grown meat make it an almost prohibitive article of food amongst the poorer classes of the community, in a message from New York published in the Boston Christian Science Monitor of January 14, the following announcement regarding a new source of meat supply for the.United States is made,;—" Australia, New Zealand, and South America may furnish a considerable quantity of the beef and mutton used in this country. These rumours of arrivals of frozen mutton from Australia and New Zealand came through freight brokers, who named the steamship lines by which they came. But great reticence among the steamship agents made it very difficult to ascertain the details regarding the shipments or to whom they came," said the Journal Of Commerce. "The same was true of the dealers who distributed and sold these shipments in..the New York retail markets. They admitted they had done so, but would not give prices obtained nor amounts sold, though they agreed that both the frozen mutton and refrigerated beef was of fine quality and gave consumers satisfaction. They also, agreed that they bought the bulk from one importer, who re-shipped several steamer loads of the frozen mutton from London. But the local packer, who has four retail .markets in the city, said he could distribute this imported meat only through one of his houses, as he had Government inspectors m his other three houses, and the Governed ment. would not let them sell it from* bouses where they had inspectors, on the ' ground that it was inter-State business. They also said that they had trouble with the Government in getting these meats through the Custom-house, which had made them a good deal of trouble, apparently in the interests of our packers in the bool’ trust. These retailers said they had found this frozen mutton of .fine quality. especially that, from New' Zealand. They had tested it in their own families and found it perfectly palatable and in taste like our refrigerated mutton, though in appearance it showed it had been frozen. They bad been able to get it within a. cent, or two per pound of the price of the latter, though they would not give the figures, but referred to Jaboc Leeser, the Australian. He was equally unwilling to give details of the result of his omports of 15,000 carcases of Australian and .New Zealand frozen mutton, although he admitted that he had brought that amount into New York and sild it here in the past tew months.” r ,