ALL MEAT SALEABLE TO BRITAIN

Grey River Argus, 22 May 1947, Page 5

ALL MEAT SALEABLE TO BRITAIN

LONDON, May 21. Sir H. Turner, Director of the Meat and Live Stock Division of the Ministry of Food, and former New Zealand manager of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company, said Britain will take all the meat she can obtain from Austrlaia and New Zealand, or -any other source. It is not so much the shortage of dollars as the shortage of meat and delays in transport that have created her present difficulties. Argentine supplies were well below normal, chiefly due to increased meat consumption in the Argentine itself and to shipping delays. “We are buying all the meat we can get hold of,” he said, “but some shipments have been lost because of labour troubles, and it is a peculiar thing that when you lose a shipment you never seem to make it up.” Britain’s most practical method of improving her meat supplies was to do everything possible to restore her own home production. Her loss during the winter he estimated to be almost equal to a full year’s imports from the Argentine. New Zealand is now Britain’s greatest meat supplier. Last year the Dominion supplied 66,000 tons more than the Argentine and 220,000 tons more than Australia.

Britain’s Prospects

LONDON, May 19.

The King at the Guildhall, said that Britain was as young and vigorous in heart as she had ever been.

The Foreign Secretary (Mr Ernest Bevin) declared in the House of Commons: “It has never occurred to the Government or the British people to apply for a receiving order in bankruptcy. We regard ourselves as one of the Powers that are vital to the peace of the world, and we still have our historic part to play. I am not aware of any serious suggestion that by a sudden stroke of fate we have ceased overnight to be a great The Lord President of the Counca (Mr Herbert Morrison) reviewing Britain’s industrial position, said: “We do not yet know what conclusions the nation has drawn from these last few months, but the one conclusion that the nation has not drawn is that it is down, and out We cannot say yet that we are securely on our way and that the risks of disaster are behind us, but at least we can say that our fate is in our own hands.”