AUCKLAND POSITION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 98, 25 March 1941, Page 2

AUCKLAND POSITION.

Ter Press Association. AUCKLAND. March 24, No immediate curtailment oj killing activities at- freezing works in the Auckland district is expected as « result of the announcement of the Minister of Marketing that as from to-day only lambs, prime beef, and porker pigs would be accepted for freezing for export. Representatives of various works stated that 6tocks of banned classes of cattle on hand at works and duo for delivery from farms within the next few days were sufficient to keep slaughtering and allied depart-

ments fully engaged. . ‘‘The question ol dispensing with staffs at the works will not arise tor at least another week, and will then depend on the nature oi the Government’s pronouncement as to disposal or meat which cannot he frozen lor export,” said one official. His considered opinion was that there would he no immediate catastrophic effect on the industry generally, m ,V e ' v ~ °* * ie Government’s assurance tnat the producer would be paid for all meat up to the end of September. That, however, did not alter the serious aspects to he laced by the country on an economic basis. Auckland was perhaps the most fortunate province in the Dominion, in that its Jamb season was practically over. Most of the ewes and wethers had been handled at the works, and it had shipped a considerable proportion of its meat, stated another official. Southern provinces would be more adversely affected because of their Jater season. , Asked what lie expected would be the policy laid down for the disposal of surplus stock, the official said he assumed that, 1 as farmers had been promised payment for normal killablc stock, freezing companies would bo asked to receive and kill it. Payment could only bo made to the farmer after cattle had been killed. As to disposal of surplus stock which could not be taken into stores, it seemed that the best of it would be canned and the balance boiled down for manures.