MEAT PRODUCTION

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 13330, 17 December 1943, Page 7

MEAT PRODUCTION

SUPPLIES FOR GREAT BRITAIN MANPOWER AND FERTILISER A meeting of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board was held on Friday. December 10. The board dealt with several matters connected with its campaign for the production of more weight of meat for the United Kingdom. It is enlisting the aid and co-operation of the various interests and organisations connected with the meat-export industry. The arrangements made should ensure a comprehensive coverage which will reach meat producers in every district throughout the Dominion. Two of the most important aspects in regard to increasing meat production relate to manpower and fertiliser supplies. Strong representations have been made by the board to the Government on several occasions in regard to the manpower position. At its recont meeting the board discussed with Government representatives, the position relating to fertiliser supplies which are urgently awaited by farmers in connection with the planting of rape and other crops. The board has received an assurance that everything possible is being done to speed up supplies. The board gave consideration to the question of its “open-door” policy in relation to the fat stock disposal order. Since its inception the board has always insisted on the “open door” to safeguard the interests of farmers, and it is just as emphatic to-day that there must he no variation in the facilities which enable any farmer to put stock into the works on owner’s account, if he so desires. A grant of £2O was authorised to the Hawke’s Bay A. & P. Society towards the prize money in connection with the chiller cattle classes at its next autumn show. To ensure a closer contact between the board and the National Pig Industry Council, it has been arranged for a representative of the Board to attend meetings of the executive of the council. The board gave further consideration to the provisions regarding the grading of meat for local consumption, as it affects the meat-export industry. It had previously made representations to the Government urging that the regulations should not be introduced until after the termination of the war. The hoard is convinced that if grading of meat for local consumption is continued, it is going to be detrimental to the campaign for increased production of meat for the United Kingdom, and it is therefore continuing its protests to the Government.