MEAT TRADE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 August 1919, Page 5

MEAT TRADE.

FARMERS' POLICY

PALMERSTON N., Aug. 26. Ihe committee appointed at the recent conference to draft a. report am; nominate a commission to proceed to iLmgLand, has recommended inter alia, , r fol«>wing schedule of duties: Jo proceed to England to examine conditions and make representations to the Imperial Government concerning th« ISiew- Zealand meat trad© on the toTlowing lines: (a.) Thai the Imperial Government he urged to give Dominion mea.. priority of shipment and preference of sale over American meat purchased and still unsold by the Imperial Government: (b) that colonial meat he placed on the market at a price that will mean neather profit nor loss to the s*P«"ial authorities; (c) that the shipping of the meat, if possible, be further expedited and an assurance obtained from the British Government to this effect; (d) that the terms of theT?m miS r .X amended *> that on j June 30 next the New Zealand freez-1 mg companies shall become agents of the Imperial Government for the dis-! posal of our meat through legitimate' channels, subject Jo the wishes "of their, clients and the provision of clause 1 suh»-elause (b). 'I If this is not practicable, that a pro-' portion of the freezing companies' meatand a proportion of Imperial meat to' be agreed upon mutually, shall be snip-1 ped from the Dominion, and a R far possible be kept entirely strati I Iliat as a last resource,, and failing other remedies arrangement,, be made tLI^ n wUO^ of TT the commandeer. I That Mr W. D. Hunt be the pro-' dncers' representative for the North* Island, ana Mr Hugh Burrell (chairman' or the aswciated farn.ers' Wzing„! parues) be the freezing oom^SSfs' Je-1 presentative, a nd Dr. Beaked Government reprceentative." I