MEAT GRADING

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1944, Page 7

MEAT GRADING

NOT TO BE DEFERRED

The Government has no intention of deferring the imminent extension of meat grading," said the Acting Minister of Industries and Commerce (Mr. Nordmeyer) in the House of Representatives yesterday. He was replying to an urgent question by Mr. A. S. Sutherland (National, Hauraki), who asked whether the Minister would give the House an opportunity of discussing the meat grading system before putting it into operation in the Waikato, or, m the alternative, whether he would cancel arrangements until after the war.

Mr. Sutherland said that many representative meetings of graziers and farmers were being held at which statements were made that the system would operate unfairly against the export market trade to Britain. 'I have already announced that the Government's decision to complete the introduction of meat grading throughout the Dominion at the beginning of January was arrived at after full consideration of all factors, including the question of possible effects on the | export trade," the Minister said. "Experience in Wellington during the past year does not support the contention that the Quantity of first-grade meat available for export will be reduced under grading."