CONDITIONS FIXED BY BOARD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 30 December 1922, Page 7

CONDITIONS FIXED BY BOARD.

MOVE TO REDUCE PRICES

(BT TELEGRAPH—PR^SS ASSOCIATION | WELLINGTON, Dec! 29. In accordance with the provisions of a recent Order-in-Council prohibiting the-export of lambs save in accordance with the determination, of the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board, the Board announces that it has now determined as follows:

(1) Meat being a carcase or carcases of any lamb or lambs slaughtered prior to the eight day of January, 1923, may be exported from New Zealand. (2) Meat being a carcase or carcasSs of any lamb or lambs slaughtered after the said date, which after killing and preparation for the market without the removal of kidneys and kidney fat, are of a net freezing weight of 421b or under, may be exported from New Zealand if the kidneys and kidney fat shall be retained in and form part of each of the carcases.

Meat being a carcase or carcases of any lamb or lambs slaughtered" after the said date, which after killing and preparation for the market without the removal of kidneys and kidney fat are oyer the net freezing weight of 421b, may be exported from New Zealand with or without kidneys and kidney fat being retained in and forming part of each carcase.

(4) Lamb, in the resolution, shall; have the meaning attributed to the' word' in the Order-in-Council. i Evidence in the hands of the board in New Zealand and from its advices from London indicates that an effort is being made to reduce the prices of New Zealand lamb, and the decision of the board that all lambs weighing 421b or under, which are exported, must have the kidneys and kidney fat retained in the carcase, is being used as a smoke screen in connection with the reduction in prices. If matters eventuate along these lines the board has under consideration measures for | the protection of the producers.