CALL FOR NEW ORGANISATION

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29260, 19 July 1960, Page 10

CALL FOR NEW ORGANISATION

Meat Marketing Criticised (New Zealand Preus Association) MASTERTON, July 18. “So a spokesman for the big meat interests has told the Meat Board not to interfere with the Worshipful Company of Middlemen who handle our mept,” said Mr L. T. Daniell, of Masterton, today. Mr Daniell, a member of the Marginal Lands Board, was commenting on a London report of a speech by Mr M. Sandwith, a director of Thomas Bothwick and Sons, at a luncheon of the Worshipful Company of Butchers. Mr Sandwith said the New Zealand Meat Board, in its anxiety to find new trade outlets, Should not interfere with the free enterprise system. “Who was it bungled our meat marketing so badly in the 1959 season?” asked Mr Daniell. “The comparative returns of the Dairy Board and the Meat Board show that we should consider the present methods of meat marketing out of date. “We have the right to interfere. Smithfield must go, as Tooley street went. Let us go forward with the Meat Board and our own producers’ co-operative society. “To sum up, better marketing of our meat in Britain, is an urgent economic problem involving many millions of pounds which New Zealand can no longer afford to ignore. “If the present Meat Board Is too good natured to undertake it. a Meat Marketing Commission should be formed on the lines of the successful Wool and Dairy Marketing. Commissions,” Mr Daniell said. (Earlier report page 11)