"KEEP COSTS LOW."

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 202, 27 August 1931, Page 7

"KEEP COSTS LOW."

OVERSEAS MEAT MARKETS.

REVIEW OP THE INDUSTRY. MEETING WORLD, COMPETITION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The necessity for costs being kept at the lowest possible point was stressed, by Mr. D. Jones, chairman of.the Meat Board, in reviewing the past season at the annual meeting of the board to-day. It was imperative, he said, to concentrate on reducing costs not only as applying to those on the farm, but also various costs in the intervening links from the farm until the product finally reached the point of consumption. Having in view the steady increase of the output of lamb from New Zealand and other countries, the board was using every endeavour to enlarge the channels of distribution and was allotting freezing companies as much space as possible for shipment to West of England ports and Glasgow.

There could be no question, the speaker said, that regularity and continuity of supplies were the most important factors in the attainment of success on the British market, and the authority exercised by the board over shipments in this way was probably the most valuable work the board had undertaken.

Mr. Jones stressed the necessity of keeping up and improving the quality of produce in face of world competition. The board was opposed to any lowering of the standard, and had given definite instructions to the supervising graders visiting the works not to allow lambs below the limit- of the present second class standard to be shipped. It must be recognised that these lambs would go forward as the product- of the Dominion and be sold as such, thereby becoming a source of danger to the trade as a whole.

Mr. Jones said the Dominion was in a position to carry considerably more pigs, and they should concentrate on further developing,pork exports. -