MUTTON AND LAMB.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 14 October 1922, Page 12

MUTTON AND LAMB.

PROSPECTS VERY GOOD

MR, J. S. JESSEP'S VIEWS

j (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DANNEVIRKE, Oct. 14. I Mr. J. S. Jessep, vice-chairman of the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board, in a letter from London, to the Southern Hawke's Bay Farmefi r<Union, stated: "I should like to say to the growers in your district that the prospects before New Zealand mutton and lamb are, in my opinion, very good. I am. more" than ever convinced of the necessity for New Zealand growers themselves taking a very definite interest in their business. It is the business jof growers to open up new markets

and endeavour to increase .the consumption of New Zealand produce. No one else will do it. Most of the large meat interests are also interested in meat from other countries and are not specially interested-in pushing New Zealand meat. Further, if they do open up new markets there is no guarantee that they themselves will get any special benefit, whereas from the point of view of the growers it is of vital importance that we open hew markets and increase consumption "