THE MEAT CRISIS
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chaser, and farmers must realise that they must change their methods so as to produce what that only purchaser required.
A strong plea for consideration for the high-country farmer was made by Mr. T. D. Burnett (National, Temuka), who explained that owing to the inequality of climatic conditions the killing of sheep commenced much later in the South Island than it did in the North Island. Of the 31,000,000 sheep in New.Zealand 17,000,000 were in the North Island and 14,000,000 in the South i Island. Today, under normal conditions, the killing season in the South Island did not cease until well into June, so that the killing restrictions that had been imposed would bear much more harshly on the South Island producer than on the northern farmer.
Several other speakers took part, and after the Minister had made a brief reply, the House rose at 11.50 p.m.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1941, Page 13
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