MEAT IMPORTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 April 1934, Page 5

MEAT IMPORTS

BRITISH PRESS COMMENT

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LONDON, April 16

Th» “Financial News” says: The scheme of the Re-organisation Commission regarding fat stock may have a serious effect upon Britain’s political relations with the Dominions. The chief nroposal is the restriction of imports’ and the abandoning of any attempt to restrict the Home production. The Commission proposes to regulate the meat imports in accordance with the information that is gathered regarding the Home supplies, The result will be that the price of frozen and of chilled meat will rise, and the -consumption will fall, but there is no certainty that the consumption will be diverted to fresh meat.

The paper adds: It is admitted that

the British costs of production are far in excess of the foreign and the Dominion costs. A diminution of the autumn meat glut may eventually be achieved, but in the meantime we shall have offended the Dominions and the Argentine, thereby causing reactions in our export trade, and we cannot be certain that it will materially improve the position of the British farmers.

The “Daily Telegraph” says: The suggestion for negotiations may not be very welcome, but the Dorflinions understand the position. They can be expected to agree to some measure of restriction.” The “Irish Press” says: “New Zea-

land, through the same stern economic facts as Ireland, has been driven to the conclusions which far-seeing Irish leaders reached years ago. She must rely on a home market, created by the establishment of secondary industries, diversifying agriculture to feed her own people, rather than Englishmen. England has not yet declared an economic war on New Zealand, but she is considering measures which would inevitably restrict New Zealand exports. The facts in New Zealand justify the Fianna Fail’s policy in Ireland.”

OTRANTO’S BEEF.

LONDON, April 16.

The Otranto’s chilled beef arrived in perfect condition. It is selling at slightly below the Argentine price.

SHIPOWNERS’ CONCESSION

SYDNEY, April 15.

The shipowners have offered a concession over the remainder of the year for the carriage of chilled beef, which is still regarded as being in an experimental stage. It is understood that the shipowners are prepared to carry chilled beef on the basis of lid per lb., to be charged on the actual weight of the meat shipped, instead of on the basis of the cubic feet of space occupied.