MEAT BOARD POLICY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIII, Issue 258, 29 September 1943, Page 5

MEAT BOARD POLICY

(Press Assn.) DUNEDIN, Sept. 28. The meat export position and the future policy of the Meat Producers’ Board were fully outlined by Mr J. Begg, a member of the board, at a meeting of the Otago provincial council of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. His remarks were supported by Mr D. H. Cockburn, a member of the electoral committee of the board.

Mr Begg stated that the British Government had advised that it required all the meat New Zealand could produce for shipment. It had pointed out that there need be no concern regarding the provision of shipping facilities. In future the Meat Board intended to press the point that the carcases sent forward should be as heavy as was possible consistent with quality, and to bring that about he believed a higher price would have to be paid. The changes in the personnel of the Meat Board, Mr Begg said, had left some localities without representation, and he thought it desirable that representation should bo on a reasonable territorial basis. The board had always endeavoured to 6eo that New Zealandowned freezing works did not pass to overseas interests if this could be avoided. At a meeting of the beard- next week proposals would be made for the new schedules for next season, and ho believed that the board would ask that portion of the money which had been retained in the meat pool should be distributed.