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" I have based upon it another compilation, bringing 

 together the information it contained, and some other figures 

 bearing on the trade, which, taken together, furnish a some- 

 what complete statistical view of it from this end, as regards 

 its volume and the equipment for carrying it on. The com- 

 pilation is appended. The export figures are taken from the 

 valuable half-yearly card issued by the Shaw, Savill and Albion 

 Company. 



"The outstanding features shown are, first, the large 



Stud Romneys ox Motutara, West Coast, Auckland Province, 

 North Province, N. Z.) 



numbers of freezing^ .houses scattered over the Dominion, 

 being forty-one in all, when the eight under construction are 

 finished — twenty-five being in the North Island, and sixteen 

 in the South Island. 



'' The number and distribution of these works is such that 

 scarcely any farmer in the Dominion can have a fat beast 

 ready any day, or a thousand of them, without a freezing 

 house fairly close by to take them off his hands immediately, 

 and a steamer to carry them to London within a week or two. 

 It comes wonderfully near to that ideal condition for the 

 grazier — " not a blade of grass wasted." It is very remarkable 



