Policy For Disposal of Meat

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 102, 1 May 1941, Page 6

Policy For Disposal of Meat

Government Urged To Make Statement “MATTER OF EXTREME URGENCY” Par Pres* Association. CHRISTCHURCH, April 30. Requesting the Government “a* a mater of extreme urgency” to decide and make T.nown its policy for the ditposal of meat in the comiug season aud suggesting the step* to be taken, tn« resolutions adopted at a special meeting of the Dominion executive of the Farmers’ Union last week were read to the North Canterbury executive of tto union to-day by Mr. G. C. Warren, who attended the spocial meeting as a delegate. “We have the honour of oioadcusting 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 tho export year should “finance itself as at present.” The purchase of “eventually exportable” meat should be liuanced by [short term loans raised by the Government “from the genuine savings of the people,” and the purchase of “unsaleable meat” should be 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 u 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: (1) That though the past season’s prices had not in all cases covered all production costs they should be taken as a banis 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 be on the basis of prices by the British Government at present. For classes not exportable tho basis should be the present prices to farmers and in both cases the actual distribution of prices over the various grades should be further considered.