FAT STOCK ORDER

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 305, 23 November 1945, Page 4

FAT STOCK ORDER

FARMERS NOW FREE. (Press Assn.). WELLINGTON, Nov. 23 The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has announced that the Government lias removed the Fat Stock Disposal Order. The board states that the position for the future is that the producers are free to sell their fat stock where they please and have it dealt with at whatever freezing works they may select. During the past four years the farmers had been forbidden to sell any stock intended for export to any persons other than those to whom their stock was sold during the 1940-41 season. Further, they were compelled to send their stock to the same export slaughterhouse at which the stock was killed prior to the order coming into force. The fact that the farmers have now been freed from the restrictions which, in the opinion of their trustees, the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, should never have been inflicted upon them, will be pleasing news to every meat producer throughout the Dominion. The board states that it-will continue to exericse a watching brief over the fat stock prices during the forthcoming season to ensure that schedule rises occur as and when justified.

It also draws the producers’ attention to the recent statement by the Minister of Agriculture and Marketing (Mr Roberts) that the Government expects the meat operators to conform to the prices agreed'upon from time to time with the Government and the board. • ; i 1