GRADING OF N.Z. MEAT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22388, 29 April 1938, Page 11

GRADING OF N.Z. MEAT

STUDY OF REGULATIONS TO BE MADE

MR A. H. COCKAYNE’S MISSION IN LONDON

(VU«a *>IOCIi.TIOX TELIOmll£.) WELLINGTON, April 28. Agricultural developments in the United Kipgdom and other overseas countries and the operation of the regulations governing the grading of New Zealand meat for export are to be investigated by the DirectorGeneral of Agriculture (Mr A. H. Cockayne), He will leave Sydney for London on May 25 after attending a meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council with the Minister for Agriculture (the Hon. W. Lee Martin) at Canberra early next month. Arrangements have been made for Mr Cockayne to proceed direct to Britain after attending the meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council, said Mr Lee Martin in an interview. Mr Cockayne will confer with the meat trade in the United Kingdom, particularly in regard to the grading of New Zealand baconer pigs with a view to ascertaining how the present grading regulations are operating in practice, and if it is necessary to amend them to bring the regulations into line with consumer requirements. He will also investigate the operation of other regulations administered by the Department of Agriculture governing the grading of produce. Opportunity will be taken by Mr Cockayne to ascertain* the latest investigations being made in Bntam into animal diseases, and he will advise the Government as to what steps should ,be taken in the Dominion to deal with this question.