MEAT QUOTA LIFTED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 280, 8 September 1939, Page 2

MEAT QUOTA LIFTED.

NEW ZEALAND BENEFITS. (Special to the “ Guardian.”) CHRISTCHURCH, September 7. Great Britain has lifted the quota on New Zealand frozen meat, said Mr T. A. Duncan (chairman of the New Zea- - land Alcat Producers’ Board), confirming a report that, the restrictions had been removed, thus releasing a million carcases of ewe and wether mutton for export. This total represents excess killings from last season. AVheu the board meets in AA r ellington to-morrow, \t will discuss arrangements for shipping space. Beef will also be exported, but, in future it must be frozen, not chilled. “The quota automatically went with * the declaration by England of a state of war,” said Mr Duncan, in a newspaper statement. “It will not give Am- r mediate relief to the meat industry unless shipping can be increased.” ' ' '*■ Arrangements for increased shipping had to be made several months ahead, said Mr Duncan. The Government had been dealing direct with British interests on the question of freights for shipping. “I am not in a position to say much about it, because we are in the dark at present on some questions,” replied Mr Duncan when he was asked if it was correct to say that all the ewe mutton held over from last season’s killing and now in cold storage would find a market in Britain. .