MEAT BOARD CONTROL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 235, 17 September 1934, Page 8

MEAT BOARD CONTROL

Small Costs Involved

Numerous important remits discussed by the recent conference of delegates of the Meat Board were referred to by Mr J. 11. Joll at Saturday’s meeting of the Hawke’s Bay branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. Mr Joll stated that he did not agree with a proposal that a competition should be held between the prize meat of the North Island and the South Island, to be judged in London. Such a competition, ho felt, might promote ill-feeling and unpleasantness. Friction between the two islands was not to be desired. Replying to a question, Mr Joll said that the total expenditure incurred by the Meat Board was only £52,189, which Included advertising and marketing. That expenditure covered a turnover of £13,802,232. The cost did not exceed one penny per carcase. Mr Joll explained that the Meat Board was fully alive to the menace that was known as trusts. It was desired that competition should be maintained and trusts kept in their place. Mr E. Averill stated that in the bill now being promoted by the Minister of Agriculture was a clause which pro vided that freezing companies must freeze for any of the farmers. This would have the effect of overcoming some of the opposition that mis now held against trusts.-