Australia Bids To Sell Europe Meat

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30737, 29 April 1965, Page 19

Australia Bids To Sell Europe Meat

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, April 27. An investigation of new and emerging markets for Australian meat in Europe will be undertaken early next month by three members of the Australian Meat Board.

The board’s deputy chairman, Mr F. J. Horwood, joined at some points by another board member, Sir William Gunn, and the board’s European representative, Mr D. B. Muirhead, will visit Greece, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Britain.

“The main thing we will be doing is giving the members of the board an opportunity of meeting the people involved in Australian trade in these new markets,” Mr Muirhead said today. “We will be seeing at first hand the types of meat required by those markets and, thirdly, we will have an opportunity of putting the Australian point of view.” Mr Muirhead said that all the countries the delegation would visit were important new and emerging markets. In them Australia faced competition from other European countries and from New Zealand, Latin America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States.

The market in Greece was mainly for mutton and beef, in Italy for beef and veal, and in France for beef and offals, Mr Muirhead said.

The United Kingdom want-

ed every meat Australia could supply, and Germany beef and possibly veal.