COMMANDEERED MEAT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 230, 27 September 1915, Page 8

COMMANDEERED MEAT.

DISPOSAL OF Sl'Rl'H S. (By Teleerapb■ — Vmu AiAorlatlnn.) GISBORNE, Sunday. There wax nti attendance of over 120 eheepfarmerß at a meeting held on Saturday to consider the resolutions pa»»«-d at ii meeting ii fortnight ago with rrfvrrnr* to shipping (acilitirs an.l the «ale and di» tribution of surplus roumtendcered nwnt at Home. It wan moved in cIT« t tlinl tlic previous meeting wan nut irpreaentatiM , of II" , farmers of the duitrirt. and that thin further mwtmjj wholly dirap|imrr<l "f the resolutions; thai tlir (nrmem err quilr suti-lied ti> Icevc the adjustment "f mmt price* during tlio war in tlic hands "f lhc j Imperial and Ne« Zealand Cmernment.. j that the control of the i.hip» t>y 11).- tin perial Government hn« Ijeen of tlif greatest benefit to New Zealand: Dial this meeting assure* tlie Premier of ita dewrr I to support, in oery way in it-. jmuer tlio 1 National Government in ihi» time of | Knipire nremwity, and regrel* that any [ notr of disvitniaetion should lime h 'en expiVMed in the name of the thcrpfnrnwra of Poverty Hay without their authority All amendment «n» carried, by .VJ d> 40. nil f.»ll<,«s: -That in »ir» of'all the circumstances, particular!y regarding tsic compininte from England «bout the high co«t of meat to the mtuumem tlii-n-, whim arc not justified |,v the prirra tlu- farimirn urr- rc.-ctiing in New Zealand. tlu« m.et Ing in of opinion thnt the whole matter of comnianderred meat imd shipping »hoiild b< , cerefully and impartially investigated" Iμ, the authorities"