MEAT EXPORT TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 165, 15 July 1939, Page 4

MEAT EXPORT TRADE.

CO-OPERATIVE POOL PLAN. F.NTEXSIOX iiF MANKF.TS. IBy Tplpsimi.l, .- I'iPss Ass.M-iatii.ii.l WKLLIXtiTOX. Fiiday. A remit was carried at the annual conference of the N>w- Zealand Farmers' I'nion endorsing the proposal to levy the necessary fraction of a penny a pound to form a co-operative meat pool. The conference urged the evolution by the Meat Board of a practicable and equitable scheme for the removal of surplus old ewes from the market, such schem<? to be put into operation at the beginning of the next export season. It was also decided that the union investisatP the nif.it industry with a view to fotniinsr a corporation of producers similar to thru opera tint; in the Argentine, In view of the Tii itish Coverninent's restrictions on meat imports and the difficulties which will pmh.ibly arise next season in the marketin-.' of ewe mutton, tlir conference the Hominim: executive to make repie-enta! inns ~, ,] lo Meat Bf.ard with a view t . further markets, particularlv in those Knrnpn-in count Mrs u Imcli urn in neeil of mr |>rimarv produce and arc anxious to cxt'iid (!i.| tr.ide.