THE MEAT QUOTA

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1933, Page 14

THE MEAT QUOTA

ARGENTINE BEEF TRADE

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, February 23. In the House of Lords yesterday Viscount Bertie asked the Government "if Argentine meat importers have be^en sending prime joints, of beef marked as 'bagged meat,' 'offal/ or by any. other designation in order to evade the. meat quota, andj if so,-what steps they intend to;take to put a stop to the practice." ■■■.'■< Lord Ternplemore, Lord-in-Waiting, said that it was the intention of-''the Board of Trade and Ministry of Agriculture >to see that shipments of meat not regulated under the Ottawa Agreements did not assume abnormal proportions clur-' ing the period of the agreements. South American interests had given an assurance that such shipments as were outside the quota would be strictly regulated by the shippers themselves. The Government were taking,-and would take,'every etep to prevent any infringement: of the regulations. ■■..■■ Lord Templemore. gave' import. figures for the month of January, which showed that 3200 tons* of '"other' varieties'entered Britain from South America, while 36,000 tons came in as,prime beef liable to the reductions imposed under the Ottawa Agreements. '.