FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3244, 14 June 1911, Page 2

FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

AN OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHTJ Auckland, June 13. The ‘‘Star’s’'. London correspondent, writing under date May sth, writes as follows: Sir William Tiali-Jones, High Commissioner for New Zealand, was the guest of the Cold Storage and Ice Association on- May 2nd at its annual dinner held at Die Waldorf Hotel. Sir William replied to the toast of “The Empire and Refrigeration," proposed by Sir Montague Nelson. Tlie High Commissioner said that lie had been delighted during the past >fevt months to note tlie change that was coming over the Continental market. Austria, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland were already shewing signs of becoming markets for frozen meat, and lie could forsee the time when they woiild have a greatly extended market for their meat. It behoved them to be prepared to extend the trade, not only into every corner of Europe, hut also into every part of Great Britain. He was not afraid of duties, but he did not like the almost prohibitive restrictions which some of tlie European countries imposed on frozen meat. The time was coining when the people of those countries would force their rulers to remove those barriers to a cheap food supply ,and lie believed that the next three years would see. almost every country opened to frozen meat.