FROZEN MEAT TRADE.
AN ALL-BRITISH SCHEME London, Nov. 20. The Australasian section of the Incorporated Meat Importers Soo rty formulated a scheme for after the war trading for submission to the authorities. The main object is to encourage the Empire’s meat output. It is iiggested that Australasian imports should be freed from Government control simultaneously with *°£ ei p?’ at latest by September, 1919. Refrigerated tonnage should firstly be ai!ocated to Imperial products. In order to ensure ample supplies from other sources a bonus of a Farthing in the pound should be to the Empire’s meatworks, an eighth of a penny to foreign llritish-owned works on condition that the former allocate 75 per cent c,f their output, and the latter .60 per cent to the British Association .■mbracing the entire British \ m port i rade. A bonus is also suggested to prevent foreigners dumping cheap m 6 a ti. . . j i The Government is to buy ail such meat, reselling through the association. The scheme is all British, including the production, shipping, finance and distribution.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 301, 22 November 1918, Page 3
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176FROZEN MEAT TRADE. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 301, 22 November 1918, Page 3
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