BEEF EXPORT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 17 June 1927, Page 8

BEEF EXPORT.

YOUNG AIL AT NEE DED. The need for young beef on the market to increase export and improve existing quality was by the retiring president, Air ih E. Short (Feilding). at the annua! meeting of the New Zealand Hereford Cattle Breeders’ Association at Palmerston North. ! •‘The AI eat Board has a proposal to increase, the number of fat cat-tie in. the country, merely by making the export price higher than it is at the present time,” said Mr Short. “It is proposed to levy a bounty ot ci e farthing on beef killed, thereby to increase the price for export by three farthings'. Personally, lam not in favour of bolstering up any industry. It seems to me that if the producer is to pay out for home consumption of bed as well as for export, it- is simply transferring money from one pee Ret, to another. We must always .Hunk of tin# after-effects. I am net saying anything about the proposal 1 , of the Meat .Board beyond what is my present opinion on the matter, and no doubt the course proposed is going to he the best for the industry. I think the main idea is to increase the carrying capacity of the land for sheep.” To indicate how beef export fiom this country had decreased, the sneaker- said that during 1922-23 125,000 quarters of beef wore sent abroad, while during 1926-27 the figures dropped to 30,000. In this regard. Air. Short said it was to he borne in n.ind that the population of New /.cablin' had increased, and therefore home consumption had increased also. “I think the line we should follow is to produce young heel, and thus put a good artclei on the market. be concluded. “In that direction we have nothing to fear for the Hereford, with which, there is nothing to compare for early maturity.”