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Kōrero: Meat and wool

Grading sheep carcasses

Grading sheep carcasses

Sheep and lamb carcasses are weighed and graded at the Canterbury Meat Company works. Meat inspection and grading were introduced to give New Zealand meat a competitive advantage in Britain, where it was vying with Australian, Argentinian and homegrown meat.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 1/1-019436; G

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Alistair Nicol rāua ko Caroline Saunders, Meat and wool – Classifying products, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/19212/grading-sheep-carcasses (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Alistair Nicol rāua ko Caroline Saunders, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.