BRIGHT PROSPECTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1933, Page 12

BRIGHT PROSPECTS

LAMB EXPORT TRADE

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) IXTERCARGILL, December 13. A note of optimism regarding the meat export trade was struck by Mr. D. Jones, chairman of the Meat Board, in an 'address at an official luncheon at the Southland Summer Show today. Speaking of the Ottawa Agreement, lie said the average New Zealand farmer did not realise the enormous effect of the reduction imposed on imports into Britain from the Argentine. It mean that the Argentine would this year send 200,000 fewer lambs and 600,000 quarters of beet' less. Had the Ottawa Agreement not been brought into effect the meat trade of the world would have been demoralised. ■ Referring to the trend of the Home market, lie said that the 9,000,000 lambs sent by New Zealand to England last year had Hjeen consumed in eleven months. Statistically, the lamb trade now looked bright, and he considered the demand would equal the production. The British buyer was in a better position, and the effects of returning confidence were evident.