THE MEAT COMMANDEER.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16289, 13 August 1918, Page 6

THE MEAT COMMANDEER.

EXTENSION LIKELY TO BE AGREED TO.

| (SPECIAL TO "THE PS ESS.") | WELLINGTON, August 12. TJio agreement of New Zealand interests to the extension of the mMt commandeer is now almost a certainty. The Minister is to meet tho farmers on Iriday and ther 0 will bo among them many farmers who will come B repared to oppose the scheme, but the argument* in favour of its adoption are so f . rom own point of view L nVM Ir ncceytance of them - is not m doubt. Tlio hostility of tlie farmers is based on their belief that this is n schemo of tho freezing companies, and some of the farmers regard nnt,?™. 8 con ?P ani< * ,as the farmers' ' natural enemies. Others of them hart gathered po wrong impression th»t tho proposal has come from the Imperial hpin« r , anc L that Ngw Zealand is fart ? th< t0 D * reG to it. Tho j£ originates in New ZeaH'&laS" *"* ° f "U to bO - 1 "'

oll P, I .® adoption of t!he extension, jf it should be adooted by the Imperial Gosuro'thA R+jrir t0 ,®? lvo in som e moa--1 5 £ storage problem in New ITJt- K ho u companies, which had been chary of building more stores for immediate requirements, knowing that the m 0r M u elr storn ,g e more meat they thn Inr 76 °2 t ,\\ e,r , hands at the end of the war. and the longer it would be before they would bo able to resume K«fn mg ' W .'H now bo able to build the stores with confidence. In the last period of the requisition after the termination of- Hostilities the stores m«l h gra^u ? l,y , cleared, and' thero £d TT,i n °/« C M as they had fear- , ""S consideration is no doubt at 1 of the changed decision of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company one of the biggest concerns in ; Thl ß compnny wa« at first ® ejection of more storage to meet the reeds of next year, but now it has an noun rod that it will provide ■ s P®J!p f°r. 100,000 carcases. There is a deareo of urgency in the ; matter now. in that if ther* is no delay : here, Mr Massey may be able to carry • on in person the negotiations with the Imperial Government. Mi* Mnssrv is leaving soon for New Zealand, and if he should leave before the producers Jiore are able- to agree about what they want, the bu«iW q will have to be done by correspondence. "