Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 20 February 1934Vol. IV, No. 7

Cheap Beef!

p. 8 · Read in the full issue

Page 88

New Calendonia’s Trouble

"IF copra is over-produced and correspondingly valueless, what can we say about beef in New Caledonia?” said a Syd ney man who arrived recently from the French colony.

“Good freshly-killed beef is selling in Noumea at 1d per lb. Pastoralists cannot get more than 20/- to 25/- per head for their beasts. There are large herds of cattle in New Caledonia, where the indus try has been built up over many years, but it is practically impossible under present conditions to find any market at all for canned beef or the other products of the industry. It is apparent that if some out let is not found soon this very valuable pastoral industry of New Caledonia will disappear.”

A fair amount of Australian capital is invested in meat-canning works and pas toral properties in New Caledonia.

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