KILLING QUOTAS IN CANTERBURY
“Freezing Companies Favour Removal”
Freezing companies were very much behind any move to have killing quotas in Canterbury abolished, said Mr W. R. Mattueson, administrative manager of Thomas Borthwick and Sons, Ltd., speaking on the freezing industry to a meeting of farmers in Christchurch yesterday. Mr Mathieson said that he “touched wood” that killing quotas did not spread to the North Island. Replying to a questioner, Mr Mathieson said that killing quotas were purely a Canterbury. custom and did not exist in the North Island. They were "a union setup.” The killing quota was not written into the freezing workers’ award—it was just something that the union in Canterbury had decided upon. “I had better touch wood because I hope to goodness it doesn’t spread to the North Island,” Mr Mathieson said. “We have been battling over the years to try to get it off.” “You would say, Mr Mathieson, that freezing companies are very much behind having it removed?” asked the questioner. Mr Mathieson: Certainly.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29273, 3 August 1960, Page 7
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