AIR EXPORT OF MEAT

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29385, 12 December 1960, Page 16

AIR EXPORT OF MEAT

Board Denies Report (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, December 11. “It is not the intention of the Meat Board that New Zealand meat should be flown to North America." said the chairman of the board (Mr J. D. Ormond) commenting today on plans for 1961. Mr Ormond said a published suggestion that mass air-freight-ing of meat to the United States was contemplated was quite wrong. There was no such intention. Mr Ormond said that to ensure the orderly supply of New Zealand lamb in the United States and Canada, in accord with the requirements of those markets, the board had placed the responsibility for the marketing of lamb there with the Meat Export Development Company, Ltd. Mr Ormond said it had been pleasing to note the appreciative comment of the Canadian Minister of Agriculture on this decision. The chairman of the Meat Export Development Company, Mr N. A. Thomson, of Auckland, said today that there was no intention to fly New Zealand lamb into the United States or Canada. Mr Thomson, who has just returned from those countries, said the company’s plans to ensure the orderly marketing of New Zealand lamb in North America had been very well received there, and he was confident that arrangements satisfactory to the importing countries and to New Zealand could now be carried out.