MEAT POOL

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 173, 10 April 1923, Page 8

MEAT POOL

To The editor. ' gi r —Many farmers and others are indebted to your correspondent “Fat Lambs” in your issue ot April 2, for suggesting that a balance-sheet of tins meat pool should be published. Every bank and public company has to publish a half-yearly balance-sheet. Why should this board, even with statutory powers, be exempt? I know for a fact that before every steamer is allowed to leave New Zealand with meat on board heavy cheques have got to be paid to the Collector of Customs at each port, and it is only right that the countrv should know what is being done with these cheques. As your correspondent points out, very large expenses have been incurred on account of officials beinn- appointed to this board, and another vast Government Department m embryo has been established. The members of the board are a fine Jot of men, and surely they must have common sense enough to know that the 16 points which were set out by one of their number were not entirely accomplished by the board. Surely some credit may be due to the actual owners of the meat in London, who have to dispose of it, and naturally wish to have as few obligations to pay as npssible.—l am, etc., P SHEEPFARMER. Waipukurau, April 6.