MEAT TALKS WITH BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26353, 22 February 1951, Page 7

MEAT TALKS WITH BRITAIN

Argentina Ready For Resumption (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, February 20. Reports from Buenos Aires say that the Argentine Minister of Economic Affairs (Mr Roberto Ares) has said that the Argentine is ready to resume meat talks with Britain. The news came soon after the Minister of Food (Mr Maurice Webb) h«d been subjected to 40 minutes of questioning in the House of Commons. When he was asked if he was aware of the acute hardship caused to housewives by the combination of an 8d meat ration and only two stale eggs a week, Mr Webb said: "We are discussing eggs, but I suppose at the moment meat has to be dragged into everythin#. We are making plans in the next flush season to permit retailers to sell eggs as last year, to any individual.”

Mr Webb added: "The food supplies of this country in the last 12 months have been better than for the last 10 or 12 years.” In reDiv to another question. Mr Webb said £199 a ton was paid for home nroduced mutton and lamb, ex B 1 aushterhouse. For imported mutton. £70.65 a ton, c.i.f„ was paid and £124.21 a ton c.i.f. was paid for imported lamb. Home-produced beef was bought at £147 a ton ex slaughterhouse. The prices paid for imported beef were: frozen fore and hindquarters, £t)7.3! a ton c.i.f.; boned and boneless, £102.58 a ton c.i.f.