AIR FREIGHTING PRODUCE

Press, Volume C, Issue 29702, 21 December 1961, Page 20

AIR FREIGHTING PRODUCE

Waikato Committee e In Recess s ? (N2. Press Association) HAMILTON. Dec. 19. '• After a lengthy discussion on the air freighting of farm 1 produce at its monthly meets ing in Hamilton today, the e meat and wool section execu- | five of Waikato Federated s Farmers carried a resolution * asking that as the Govern--0 ment was now studying air f freighting the Waikato Air Freight Committee go into i recess and only rea sume its duties at the 7 Government’s or statutory 3 board’s request for further evidence. : Mr M, G. Hewitt, a memr ber of the Air Freight Committee, said that the com- - mittee had achieved what it r had set out to do and that - was to establish air freight--0 ing as a feasible proposition s Mr A. B. Baker, a member ” of the New Zealand Meat i Board, said that the board’s e work in trying out the possi- !, bildties of air freighting had r been seriously delayed because another body was ene deavouring to do exactly the it same work as it was doing, d Reports of the activities of r the Waikato committee had C got into the press and the matter had been a cause of 0 great worry to the board He - would like to know what the d future activities of She committee were going to be. At e present the committee was h simply duplicating the work - of the board. s “Air freighting is a long--9 term business," said Mr Baker. “It is going to take e many months and possibly d some years to work into this >- thing gradually for the beneflt of producers."