MEAT AND WOOL

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 2560, 18 December 1924, Page 11

MEAT AND WOOL

M VNAWATU DAMPS BEST AT S-MITHFJLELD.

At a meeting of the South Canterbury A. and P. Association, at Timaru, Mr B. H. Tripp, when speaking on the meat question, slated that the Meat Producers’ Board was doing good work. He had been through the Smithflold market, and was struck with the falling off in Canterbury lamb. It was not as good as it used to be, and was certainly not up to the North Island meat. Some of the best lambs he saw there were from the Longburn works, Palmerston North, He thought, further, that boards should bo established to deal with all classes of produce. There could be boards at both ends, which would regulate supplies, but, not to do the selling. Wool, too, should be similarly controlled. The B A.W.R.A. was at an end, and there was now no controlling authority. Wool was now selling extremely well, and people said “What is the use of it?” That was ail very well, but what if a slump came. He had come to the conclusion that if boards had been operating during the past thirty years the Dominion would have been better off. They were only now coming into thenown .

lUr Tripp went on to say that tie had attended the Bradford Wool Conference, and was shown the Romney clip with hair on it. Girls had pulled hair out of the cloth with tweezers, and he had been informed that the Xcw Zealand clip had deteriorated.