MEAT FOR BRITAIN
HIGHER PRICES WANTED
Mr. H. S. Henley, M.L.C., a member of the Australian Meat Board, gave an assurance to a recent conference of farmers in Sydney that as soon as the opportunity arose the board would press the British Government for an increased price for mutton, and also for second-quality meat. The conference decided to ask the Meat Board to review the disparity in the price of mutton and lamb for export.
Mr. Henley explained that the prices under the contract with the British Government were fixed on 1938 levels. He said that it would have been impossible to get the Government to accept 1938 prices for lamb, 1937 for mutton, and 1939 for beef. The Meat Board had had to select a period, and it had decided on 1938, during which the price for mutton, although low, was not as low as it had been.
He informed the delegates that the Meat Board appreciated the fact that the price for mutton under the. contract was low, and that it would have a legitimate claim in asking the British Government, when the contract was renewed, to review the amount now paid.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 39, 14 August 1940, Page 12
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194MEAT FOR BRITAIN Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 39, 14 August 1940, Page 12
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