Frozen Meat Trade.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 272, 12 March 1889, Page 2

Frozen Meat Trade.

The following features in connection with the Frozen meat trade for 1888 (as stated in the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company’s circular) call for special notice (1.)— Importations from Australasia were heavier than in any previous year, aggregating some 1.051,980 caresses, as compand with 855,228 in 18a7. The total shipments from the River Plate amounted to some 908.689 carcases, as against 641,866 carcases in 1887. Ot this quantity 153 968 were consigned to Lo -’don—a decrease ot 88 935 care-set—and 754.721 to Liverpool, an increase ot 855.758 oareases as compared with the preceding year. (2) —Stocks during 1883 influenced to a more marked extent than usual, the Bourse ot values, irrespective of other considerations and it is noticeable that whereas the highest prioes ruled when supplies here were In smallest compass the greatest deptpseion prevailed when they were heaviest. ; (3) Secondary q'lall'ies of Colonial mutton had to contend against increa-ed competition on the part of ths River Plate-ea feature especially felt at tim-s in the provinces—for, white shipments trom New Zeeland werSb* barely up to the standard of recent those from the River Plate have yehr by year tended to improve in qnality. (4 ) -The country markets, as'a rule, afforded less strength to qnntatlona than was the ease in 1887, and a smaller proportion nt tha importations into London waa disposed of in the provinces. (s)—New Zea'and Beef war ihgalvod in cnnsiderablv increased qnantitlM and, with bnt temporary exceptions, m«t b dragging sale. American descriptions were throughout fairly plentiful, while towards thselcM of ths veer supplies wore extremely heavy, and a large proportion being nf Irregular quality and low In price sates nt frozen hied ware at times rendered Imnractlcabte. (6 )—1 ambs.—There was a tonriderahta falling off in arrivals as oompaMdarith 1887, and the market being at no tins glutted values were generally bettor maintained than has frequently been the case in toimor years. Had receipts, however, been otberthan moderate during the epring it ia probable that values would have ruled appreciably lower, as, owing to tha unfavorable weather then experienced, the demand for bomb and imported lambs wee relatively restricted. As compared with 1887, the imports pf motion and lamb in 1888 from Australia exhibit an increase of 28,408 carcases or nearly 21 per cent., while thnee from New Zealand were augmented hy 179 349 carcases nr nearly 19 0»r cent. Rhipmenta of hoof from New Zealand likawtee exhibited considerable expansion, the increase on the preceding year amounting to 18,915 pieces, or nearly 73 per cent,