BRITISH MEAT IMPORTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 10

BRITISH MEAT IMPORTS

BENEFIT TO HOME PRODUCER

PREVENTING GLUT

'{By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.)

(Received February 17, 2.15 p.m.)

LONDON, February 16.

Mr. Tom Williams (Labour) asked in the House of Commons if the President of the Board of Trade was satisfied that restriction of imports of mutton and lamb would bring an increase in the/production of British mutton and lamb. He pointed out that the restriction of supplies of beef from Australia and Argentina had not helped the prices of home-produced beef.

Mr. Oliver Stanley replied that the Government believed restriction of the mutton and lamb imports would benefit the home producer. Restriction was necessary to prev.ent the obvious glut. There had been a decline in the prices of home-produced beef, but it would have been more serious if no attempt had been made to regulate imports. Questioned regarding the necessity for large reserves of frozen meat in wartime, Mr. Stanley said: "The Government thinks that the best reserve is a flourishing sheep afld stock industry in Britain."