MEAT SALES IN BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26121, 25 May 1950, Page 2

MEAT SALES IN BRITAIN

Sir, —You printed a well-informed article by A. x W. Mitchell, N.Z.P.A. special correspondent, and I commend this information to all farmers, including Mr Warren. Instead of wasting words on Mr Nash Mr Warren should get all the’ information he requires from our own Meat Board. Mr I Nash mentions the high price we get for our butter sold to Britain, and tne lower price at which it is sold in Britain. No New Zealand butter is sold as such in Britain. All butler imported into Britain is blended. We do not know the moisture content of this Empire butter, but it seemed fairly high to me. Our lamb is sold to Britain at approximately lid a pound, f.0.b., and is boxed with all other imported lamb—all qualities from all sources- and is sold retail approximately Is Gd a pound. There is no subsidy on imported meat.—Yours, etc., CHAS. DUNSTAN. Mayfield, May 23. 1950. FREEDOM Sir, -In a recent issue, Mr E. B. E. Taylor was reported speaking on “freedom.” What does Mr Taylor think freedom is? Is it to be able to do those things one would like to do. subject, of course, to the just and equal claims of others? Christ drove the exploiting money-changers out of the iomplo, (hereby curtailing their ‘•freedom.“ Would Mr Taylor do like-wi-e? Further, would he drive them from the temple of humanity?— Yours, etc., H. TRITT. May 22, 1950. IMr E. B. E. Taylor had no comment to make on this letter.] Sir.- When the’ chairman of the Canterbury National Party last week spoke of the New Zealand people as “soft, lazy leaners on the State.” for whom “an interfering welfare-state Socialist Government fixed prices, protected licensed industries, subsidised foodstuffs, made contracts for those buying property, built and rented houses at cheap rents, sheltered manufacturers, etc.,” he included in that calc gory, I presume, the 40,000 ruined farmers, and the many more thousands of us hard, honest workers of all kinds, businessmen, professional men, civil servants, etc., who lost everything in those terrible world conditions, brought about inevitably by generations of exploitation and greed, of a few years back? How nice of Mr Taylor. A sympathetic. tar-seeing Government helped New Zealand out of that horrible mess. Let us not sink back again into such a .stupid, selfish, dog-oat-dog society, with its many miserably poor and its few—miserably rich.—-Yours, etc.,

H. T. WILLIS. May 20. 1950.