EXPORT MEAT GRADING

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27734, 11 August 1955, Page 11

EXPORT MEAT GRADING

ALTERATION AT PRESENT “NOT WISE” The press and people *in Britain had made far too much of the term “over-fat carcase,” said the chairman of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board (Mr J. D. Ormond), addressing the meat and wool section of Fed-, erated Farmers in Christchurch yes-’ terday. With controls and the present farming economy he believed they would go back—and it would not need to be far—to what they had had before the war. The board had been asked to bring in the teg grade. If that went to London early enough, it was sold at nearly the same price as lamb in January or February. When it got larger and heavier English butchers called it first wether. He thought it would be sounder to leave the grading system as it was until they had had another year of free marketing and the \tfhole thing had settled down. Before the war New Zealand had been at the top of the tree. Today, on a free market, New Zealand had again gone to the top. with the present grading standards, and he did not think it would be wise to alter them except to delete all references to seconds.

The day ifr.as not, he thought, far distant when producers would be flying some meat to various parts of the world, Mr Ormond said. When the planes started on those runs there must be many times when they would require freight and he believed they would develop planes in such a way that they would be able tq carry some meat, and carry it economically.