MEAT SITUATION
Statement By Government Due This Week METHOD OF FINANCING (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. February 4. A statement on the frozen meat situation will be made before the end of this week by the Government. That was the only infonnirtion which the Minister of Marketing. Mr. Barclay, was able to release when he was questioned today. The Minister was one of the Government’s representatives at a conference with the freezing companies trt Wellington last. Wednesday. Every phase of the financing necessary because of the holding back in New Zealand of meat supplies for Great Britain was discussed, but. the Government’s decisions were withheld pending the return to Wellington of the Minister of Finance. Mr. Nash, who till recently conducted all negotiations with Britain.
. Those negotiations are reported to be continuing. Announcing that the Government’s attitude would be explained this week, Mr. Barclay added that the Government was still advising farmers to keep production to the maximum.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 112, 5 February 1941, Page 12
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157MEAT SITUATION Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 112, 5 February 1941, Page 12
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