DISLOCATION WILL PASS

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 7, 10 January 1922, Page 8

DISLOCATION WILL PASS

DOMINION.^CANJEi'oLb MARKET;

It is thel ;'opvnion of Sir Philip, Proctor, EiB.E., who is intimately connected with the London, meat .market, that, by the close of; this (year;- the" post-war dislocation of- the; New 'Zealand frozen meat 'trade.> will have • passed*- He believes t that by the beginning of the 1922-23 export season' Dominion" supplies will be. free to flow'unhampered in the normal channels of distribution. ' ■'.'. • Sir ;Philip, who is visiting New Zea--land as a director of the Colonial Consignment and Distributing Co., Ltd., was formerly Director of Meat Supplies under ■''■< the 'British ■■ Ministry of Food. Holding that :tKe ..lis entirely, one for domestic [decision,;, he declined i the invitation of a Christchurch Sun re-' preseritative to comment on the New Zealand Government's' meat pool proposals.' However, the British expert had something interesting to say concerning the growth'of-the South American trade and the probability of an early straightening out of the English market. ■The'"outstanding* fact in connection with Great Britain's imports of South American meat is that the total of mutton and lamb increased hy bvev 1,000,000 carcases.1 As Sir Philip Proctor puts it, that increase must at least give iNew Zealand food for serious thought. Against this attack from the Argentine and Uruguay, the Dominion's bulwark is'its'reputation for quality. " How dqes.this.South.American meat compare in quality with New Zealand exports?" Sir Philip was asked. "It* is not as good as your best," was the guarded reply. ' ' > ■ " Quite as good as some that went from the Dominion during the war, perhaps?" "Exactly! So long as New Zealand produce* meat the like of that' which she used to'send us, she need have nothing to fear.' But quality,alone can hold the market." Touching on the quality of the Soutb 'American mutton*, the' visitor said. that .it was undoubtedly improving, even dpwn->in Patagonia, where It' Bsd one* beenT-f'' pretty rough."" South American pastorajisjts,did.,not,shrink from ( spending money on stud stock wherewith to improve 'the breed of their flocks. As to the present position of the New Zealand meat trade in London, Sir .Philip remarked-that the multiplicity of small marks undoubtedly, made. for delay in Unloading. " BeyoifiT this, he thought it m well tot a visitor to stand clear.of the pool controversy. That was primarily a matter for New Zealand, so must be decided b> NewJiZealanderSi "But eveniurifier "existing^-methods,'.' he concluded, " there seems no reason, so far as I can see, why the trade should not be running on normal lines again by the end of the present year. I. express", no opinion as to what prices will bej but Stocks-should -be -normal,- and > the'distributing channels should be normal to; receive New" Zealand's meat next season/"