The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 71
Frozen Meat
Frozen Meat.
The diagram which appears on this page shows more clearly than any words the marvellous growth of this industry, on which the welfare of the farming community largely depends.
93,000,000 lbs. of mutton and lamb were shipped during year ending June, 1892.
11,359,203 lbs. of frozen beef were exported from New Zealand for year ending 30th June, 1892.
With freight at 1d. per lb., it costs only 2d. per lb. to ship meat to London and place it upon the market. Allowing 2d. per lb. to the grower, mutton can be offered here at 4d. per lb., or about two-thirds the price of English meat.
As England annually imports fresh mutton to the value of £3,250,000, there is ample scope for the growth of the New Zealand industry.
More than one-third of the frozen mutton exported from New Zealand is shipped at Canterbury, about one-fifth from Hawkes Bay, and one-fifth from Wellington. Otago contributes about One-sixth.
Lord Rosebery says that New Zealand mutton is "not to be distinguished from English mutton."