BRITISH MEAT MARKET

Evening Star, Issue 21934, 22 January 1935, Page 9

BRITISH MEAT MARKET

ALLOWANCES TO DOMINIONS CONDEMNED NEW POLICY URGED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 21. (Received January 22, at 10.30 a.m.) “ It is tragic that the Ottawa pledge, giving the home farmer the first pick of the home market, was never implemented,” says Sir Arthur Hazlerigg, in a letter to ‘ The Times,’ condemning Britain’s allowances to the dominions for the January-March meat shipments. 41 1 calculate,” says Sir Arthur Hazlerigg, 41 that the total of the three months’ restriction will be from 120,000 to 140,000 cwt, including the extra Irish supplies. For this reason the cattlemen in Britain may as well stop farming and allow their land to become derelict. Australian and New Zealand beef and veal have been slightly cut, while the allowances of the other dominions have been slightly increased. The Australian and New Zealand cuts are too little to enable Britain further to curtail foreign chilled beef. The only hope is a meat policy similar to the wheat quota, whereby a Bill would be introduced stabilising fat cattle prices at an economic figure, thus enabling breeders and graziers to obtain a bare living.”— London ‘ Times ’ Cable.

CONFERENCE PROPOSED LONDON, January 21. (Received January 22, at noon.) In view of Air Bruce’s return from Geneva to-night, Air Thomas and Air Elliot have invited the High Commissioners to a meeting for to-morrow to arrange meat regulation in the interim between the termination of the Janu-ary-Alarch period and Air Lyons’s arrival, before which no long-term decision will be reached.