MEAT MARKET.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1695, 25 November 1920, Page 5

MEAT MARKET.

FREEZING COMPANY CONFERENCE. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. Representatives of the New Zealand Freezing' Company's met in Wellington to-day to discuss various matters of importance, including shipping freights and. a dispute between the companies and the freezing workers. The proceedings have no! yet been concluded. Tlie Prime Minister attended the conference for some time, with the object of giving certain information 1o the delegates and hearing their views on mailers connected witli the meal: trade. He was able to inform the conference thai, the quantity of meat still in store \x\ the end of the year would be considerably less than had been anticipated. The quantity over and above the lamb and beet purchased from the Imperial Government by the Vestey Bros, would be comparatively small. Shipment had been proceeding rapidly, and. as far as he was able to judge, there would be no difficulty about; getting space' for free meat. Sixteen insulated steamers, with a capacity of about 2,000,000 freight carcases, were at present in New Zealand waters. The question of control in England was discussed by the conference. The British Government is still controlling the selling price of imported meat in the United Kingdom, this applying to free meat as well as to meat purchased under the Imperial contracts. The conference suggested that Mr Massey should approach the Imperial authorities with the object of having the control lifted as soon as, possible. It was suggested that the British authorities ought not to wish to control the free meat, when once they had lifted their own meat. The Prime Minister assured the conference thai the Government would do everything in its power to secure a free market for New Zealand meat.