N.Z. MEAT BOARD

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25276, 30 August 1947, Page 10

N.Z. MEAT BOARD

APPROVAL FOR PAYMENTS NECESSARY FARMERS’ HELP TO BRITAIN (P.A.) WELLINGTON. August 29. . No payments could be made out of the £11,000,000 in the Meat Pool Account or the £7,000.000 in the Meat Industry Stabilisation Account without the agreement of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, said the chairman (Mr G. H. Grigg) at the annual meeting of the board to-day. The figures were the estimated amounts that would be in the accounts at the end of the current season. _ Mr Grigg added that with the wiradrawal of subsidies chargeable to the Stabilisation Account the prices of products or services affected were to be increased. The increase io the farmer would be reflected in the new season’s fat stock schedule prices. The board’s case for increased schedule prices would be presented to the Stabilisation Commission within the next few days, and it was hoped to make an early announcement about the prices. . . . Speaking of aid to Britain, Mr Grigg said that New Zealand must do its utmost to replace what Britain had to cut away in imported foodstuffs. Real practical assistance must come from the farmers, as New Zealand could help only to a limited degree financially. “If the farmer does his part, and I feel sure he will, then every worker in the production chain from the farm to the ship must also do his part. I have looked forward to the time when there would be closer co-opera-tion and understanding between employer and employee, to the time when each learned to appreciate the difficulties of the other and. what id vitabv important to the time when each really understood just how dependent each is upon the other. The time has come for that co-operation.” he said. “If the spirit of understanding which permeated the conference convened by the Prime Minister (Mr P Fraser) to consider wavs and means of giving aid to the UnHoH Kingdom is carried into actual practice, then I feel we shall have ffche a long way towards bridging th? gan between employer and employee, and also towards 'giving practical aid to the United Kingdom?'