MEAT DISPOSAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 128, 1 May 1941, Page 8

MEAT DISPOSAL

STATEMENT OF POLICY. REQUEST TO GOVERNMENT. (Press Assn.) CHRISTCHURCH. April 30. Requesting the Government “as a matter of extreme urgency” to decide and make known its policy for the disposal of meat in the coming season and suggesting the steps to be taken, the resolutions adopted at . a special meeting of the Dominion executive of the Farmers’ Union Inst week were read to the North Canterbury executive of the union to-day by Mr G. C. Warren, who attended the special meeting as a delegate. “AA'e have the honour of broadcasting to New Zealand the recommendations arrived at by the Farmers’ Union,” said Mr Warren. “Classifying the meat taken by the Government into ‘exportable,’ ‘eventually exportable’ and ‘unexportable,’ the Dominion executive proposes that exportable meat exportable within the export year should ‘finance itself as ai present.’ The purchase of ‘eventually exportable’ meat should be financed by short term loans raised by the Government ‘from the genuine savings of the people,’ and the purchase of ‘unsalable meat’ should bo' financed from the Consolidated Fund.

“These proposals will fairly distribute the loss over the whole community and will avoid any inflationary effect upon our currency through the payment for that portion of the meat which is not immediately exportable and will avoid further stimulation of the demand for goods which are not available for consumption,” said the executive’s report. Other proposals under the head of “finance” were: (If That 1 hough the past season's prices had not in all eases covered all production costs they should be taken as a basis in view of the war situation on the understanding that the Government took effective action to prevent further increases in costs; (2) the Government should continue to purchase all meat offered for killing for export, and the prices paid for those classes which were exportable should he on tlio basis of prices paid by the British Government at present. For classes not exportable the basis should he the present prices to farmers, and in both cases the actual distribution of prices over the various grades should be further considered.