MEAT TRADE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 20 August 1925, Page 9

MEAT TRADE.

IDENTIFYING EMPIRE GOODS. ECONOMIC COMMITTEE’S REPORT BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOC f ATION—COPYBIGHT. (Received Aug. 20, 2.25 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 19. The Imperial Economic Committee’s second report, dealing with meat, expresses the unanimous opinion that the distinction between Empire and foreign imported supplies should henceforth be compulsory. There were no effective or practical means of marking meat which was sold in small portions to the consumer, but whole carcases, however, could be marked. The committee said it would place on retailers the responsibility of passing on the identification to the consumer.

Referring to transportation, the report points out that any programme for future Empire development which failed to recognise the importance of this handicap would only lead to disappointment.—A. and N.Z. Assn. IMPORTATION OF LIVE STOCK. UNACCEPTABLE RECOMMENDATION. Received Aug. 20, 2.50 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 19. A statement authorised by Mr Stanley Baldwin to be issued to-night says that while the Government will most carefully consider the Economic Committee’s two reports, it cannot adopt the recommendation made in the meat report urging reconsideration of the legislation respecting the importation of live stock into the United Kingdom. Agricultural interests to-day are as definitely opposed to the extension of the existing system as in 1923, when the imperial Economic Conference recognised that the Government was fully entitled to have regard primarily for the interests of its own produers. This matter confined the recommendation, to one advocating inter-imperial trade in pedigree stock on reciprocal .terms, to which the Government has already given effect. —A. and N.Z. Assn.