EMPHATIC PROTEST BY BEEF PRODUCERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 66, 19 March 1915, Page 2

EMPHATIC PROTEST BY BEEF PRODUCERS

ARMY MEAT CONTRACTS(BY TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) PALMERSTON N., 18th March. At a representative meeting of farmers held here to-day for the purpose of discussing the matter of the arrangements made by the Government for the acquisition of meat supplies, the following resolutions were carried unanimously :—: — " That this meeting of beef producers of the Manawatu, Rangitikei, and Horowhenua districts, while agreeable to the prices arranged for meat, emphatically protests against the arrangements made by the Government with the freezing Companies for the purchase of meat for Army supplies, inasmuch as arrangements were made without consulting tne producer, and on account of the difficulty of securing freezing space to sell f.o.b. to the Government, ' tho freezing companies have practically a monopoly of buying at their own prices." j " That in the opinion of this meeting it is considered advisable that the Government control the freezing works in ! order that producers may not be so exploited by such companies refusing to : freeze on owners' account."