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Beef Export Bounties Act authorising the payment of 1d. per Ib. 
on beef exported. 
There are 21 freezing works in the Union ; in Rhodesia, the 
Government have recently made an agreement with the Imperial 
Cold Storage Company which gives the latter a monopoly of 
treating cattle for export for seven years, after which the 
Government has the option to purchase any works erected. 
South Africa is well placed for the chilled-beef trade with 
this country, if other difficulties, including finance and quality 
of output, can be overcome. The number of cattle in the Union 
is over 9 million ; if Rhodesia and South-West Africa be included, 
the’ number exceeds 12 million. During 1925, South Africa 
entered the trade in slaughter cattle, small shipments of cattle 
being consigned on the hoof to both Great Britain and the 
Continent.