BEEF PRICES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1922, Page 5

BEEF PRICES.

THE MEAT BOARD'S WORK. I _____ i The reductions in freezing chnrjtp* urn! I moat freights secured by the Meat Pro- ' ducers' Board have had an important I effect upon the beef market. Mr .T. S. I Xeseep, thr vii'e-chairmaii uf tlm luiard. j told a reporter that in the Wairoa &U- ---| triut alone over )000 tattle had ljeen I booked for the works, and killing is pro- [ feeding at the ran , of 75 per dn>. Mos - iof these cattle would nor have Ivch I killed but for the fact that the reductions had enabled buyers to ofVer -1 . ' per l<1011) instead uf 15, . The killing of cattle for freexiji- ha I j itecn stimulated in other part-, ■>[ \!\< l - Dominion, added i!r. Jtst-ep, aud thi-t I meant probably the slaughter o; 50,0011 i head that would otherwise ha\o been ! carried forward. Even at €0 per hear! I the sum realised by the producer* wnuUl !be £300,000. and the removal at thU steuk from the pasture- vould enab!" } Hie farmers to proceed with breeding. ' Mr. Jeflrep mentioned that the redufj tion of 24/0 per ton in the freight on tallow and pelts had meant a saving or about £50,000 to the Dominion. He expressed confidence that even {ireater results would ne achieved by toe Meat Prodi'.rer*" Roard iv the future.