MEAT EXPORTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 50, 27 August 1938, Page 24

MEAT EXPORTS

SHIPMENTS TO U.K.

ESTIMATES ACCEPTED

A review of Britain's meat policy as it affects New Zealand was made by Mr. T. A. Duncan (chairman of the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board), when speaking at the annual meeting of the board yesterday. Mr. Duncan said that the mutton and lamb allocation for 1938 was considered sufficient, and in regard to pig, beef, and veal supplies, the board's estimates had been accepted. During the year discussions had continued between the British Government and New Zealand's representatives in connection with the allocations of meat supplies to the United Kingdom, and in these negotiations the board had been ably represented by its London manager, he said. The board had been closely associated with the Minister of Finance (the Hon. W. Nash) in policy matters, and the closest attention had been given to th-2 paramount duty of endeavouring to ensure that New Zealand's interests were safeguarded in the matter of future supplies of all classes of meat to the Home market. In regard to mutton and lamb, the allocation for the calendar year 1933 was considered to be sufficient for New Zealand's requirements. The estimates supplied by the board during the year in respect to shipments of New Zealand porker and baconer pigs to the United Kingdom had been accepted by the British Government. BEEF CONFERENCE. The year had seen the establishment in the United Kingdom of the International Beef Conference, which comprised representatives of the United Kingdom and of Empire and foreign countries substantially interested in the supply of beef to the United Kingdom market. Its function was to regulate the supply of beef to the United Kingdom from overseas in the interests of producers and consumers alike, having due regard to seasonality of .supplies from all sources, including Home production, and the potentialities of the producing coun- : tries. , An Empire Beef Council consisting of the nominees of the Empire countries on the conference had also been established, its function being to consider matters affecting the well-being of the Empire beef trade, including the Empire aspect of any questions which might come up for consideration by the conference. New Zealand's position in connection with the Beef Conference was adequately safeguarded. The New Zealand representatives on both the Empire Beef Conference and the International Beef Conference appointed by the New Zealand Government, were Mr. R. S. Forsyth (the board's London manager) and Dr. R. M. Campbell (economic adviser to the New Zealand High Commissioner in London). The allocations made to date by the conference in regard to beef and veal supplies from New Zealand had been in accordance with estimates furnished by the board, and were considered adequate.