MEAT INDUSTRY

Evening Star, Issue 19588, 21 June 1927, Page 6

MEAT INDUSTRY

POSITION IH AUSTRALIA CRITICAL DEPRESSION. Frets Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, June 21. (Received June 21, at 11.50 a.in.) Mr Cramsie, chairman of the Metropolitan Meat Industries Board, says that the position of the meat industry throughout the Commonwealth at present is critical. Exporters had been carrying on at a loss for some time, and the immediate future gave no indication that the situation would improve. If anything, the heavy yardings of sheep that would result from the unusually severe winter would tend to aggravate the depression which was not confined to any one State, or portion of the Commonwealth, but applied to the industry as a whole. Tho small volume of business that had come within the reach of the Queensland meat works for some time had resulted in large increase in operating costs. The effects of the recent drought in that State would make the position worse, as tho export trade would he light. A similar position existed in Western Australia, while in Victoria and Now South Wales difficulty was experienced in securing sufficient business to enable the works to he operated profitably. Only an organised attempt to handle the trade scientifically, and thereby stabilise it, would save tho industry from disaster.