Wheat Board
Sir, —How right your correspondent is in his criticism of encouraging the retention of breeding ewes in New Zealand’s interest. How wrong he is to assume the schedules set by the freezing companies are any more than policed by the Meat Board. Certainly, the producers need tough men to represent them, who will really police - the schedules. They should be debarred from any financial, interest in a freezing company. The answer is for farmers to support the P.P.C.S. in good years and bad and so democratically separate the meat processing trade from that of trading in meat. The call for increased output in the sheep industry is close to a hollow mockery. Apart from the above anomaly, rising fertiliser costs and still hundreds of thousands of acres of land awaiting initial development, one notes the intention of the Government to spend above 450 million on electricity in the next few years.—Yours, etc., PRODUCER. October 12, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30880, 13 October 1965, Page 18
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158Wheat Board Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30880, 13 October 1965, Page 18
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