MEAT SHIPPING PROBLEM

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3119, 25 June 1917, Page 8

MEAT SHIPPING PROBLEM

: GISBOUNH TAUtEES , . •VIEWS. ;:;. Byi^cloiraijll-rrcssAssociation.-. ■■ -'..,-' "' '~ Gisborne, Juno 24. '. A largo meeting of faxmers on Saturday considered moat shipping problems, .and ft number of resolutions For dispatch .to the Government were carried ununi•'.lnausly. It'was proposed that now coiu.nuttees fco formed hero and in England ...to control BhippiEp and allot spaco; that shipping trading to New Zealand bo declared common carriers and como under -tho Commercial. Trusts Act; that the sale and distribution, of surplus colonial meat bo through the noiy committee or nn individual answerable to the Imperial Government and associated, with any £rm -engaged In the 6alo of meat; that the Government , B action in the new- shipping ■ regulations \>a approved. '•• Mr. Lysnar, in tho course of his remarks, criticised) Mr. Harold Beauchamp's statements, at the Bank of J!ow Zealand meeting. He declared that despite, tho 6ubmariiiinfis, 'Australasia, ac■cording to the Board of Trade return,/ had as much insulated tonnage as be- ', foro tho war, owing to the handing over of interned vessels and new vessols. The Board of v Trade explanation why bo little 'moat iraq shipped from the colonies irae 'that space ivag also required for butter, cheese, rabbits, and fruit. Wo knew, however, that there was a coigestion of these articles lero. The trouble was the nnjustinablo diversion of spino of our steamers. ..• The Hon. 'JL T. Ngata Mid S'r James Carroll supported the resolutions.