EXPORT OF VENISON
'•Opportunity in Scotland’ <N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Feb. 1. Scotland might learn from New Zealand and profitably farm deer, if Britain was left out of the Common Market. This is the view of Dr Roger Short, a British authority on deer. He says that he is sure Britain will not enter the Common Market Dr Short, of the school of veterinary medicine at Cambridge University, is in Auckland for the Asia and Oceania Congress on Endocrinology and is to give a public address.
If Britain did not go into the Market it would probably remove the agricultural subsidies, now 10s a head a year for sheep, he said today. This would mean that farmers in the Scottish highlands could no longer afford to keep )sheep. Already there were 200,000 ; red deer in Scotland and ) venison was selling at 18s a ) lb. Much of it was exported to Germany.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32521, 3 February 1971, Page 19
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