Meat embargo plea
NZPA Townsville An embargo on the importation of New Zealand meat has been called for by a Queensland member of Parliament whose local abattoir has been working continual short weeks. Employees of the Bohle abattoir were working twoday and three-day weeks while cattle for Townsville consumption were slaughtered elsewhere, said the member for South Townsville. Mr Alec Wilson. Outlets such as hotels were importing cartons of beef from New Zealand, he said. He had approached the state Primary Industry Minister,
Mr Michael Ahern, about the issue. At the slaughter-house 34 men walked off the job when told that only two days work would be available in a recent week. They forfeited a day's pay. The Northern District president of the Australasian Meat Employees' Union. Mr Len Neilson, said that the men had had a “gutsful of the place" with the short weeks. However. Mr Neilson said that the Bohle abattoir had increased killing fees enabling a chain store to fly in beef from Alice springs and sell it at competitive prices.
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Press, 8 January 1983, Page 17
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