MEAT CONTROL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 21, 26 January 1933, Page 7

MEAT CONTROL.

Ottawa Arrangements Being Carried Out. SUPPLY FOR BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 1 p.m.) RUGBY, January 25. The Board of Trade, reviewing the position regarding supplies of imported meat, states that in accordance with the arrangements made in November, the marketings of chilled beef from South America were reduced by 10 per cent from November 15 to the end of the year.

Arrivals for the first six weeks of the current quarter would be about 10 per cent below the rate permitted by the Ottawa agreements, and it was the present intention of the Government that the same reduction should apply till the cud of March.

Imports of frozen beef, frozen mutton and lamb from all foreign countries in the current quarter were limited under the Ottawa agreements to 90 per cent of the quantity imported a year ago. Similarly, in conformity with the Ottawa arrangements, the total quantity of mutton and lamb to be imported into the United Kingdom in 1933 from Australia and New Zealand would not exceed the quantities shipped during the year ending June 30, 1932. Shipments were being regulated in accordance with the . anticipated requirements of the market.

The stocks of beef, mutton, lamb, bacon and hams held by cold storage companies in Britain on January 1 were not abnormal. As regards bacon and hams, agreement with the principal exporting countries has been obtained to a continuance until February 22 of the existing arrangements for a reduction in imports by some 15 per cent, compared with a year ago.

The steps to be taken after February 22 will be discussed with representatives of the countries concerned. The effect of these arrangements will be kept under review by the Advisory Committee.