Levy For Co-op. Meat Pool

Northern Advocate, 15 July 1939, Page 9

Levy For Co-op. Meat Pool

I Per Press Association. Copyrights WELLINGTON, This Day. A remit was carried at the annual conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union endorsing the proposal to levy the necessary fraction of a penny a pound to form a co-opera-tive meaf pool. The conference urged the evolution by the Meat ' Boai’d of a practical and equitable scheme for the removal of surplus old ewes from the market, such scheme to be put into operation at the beginning of the next ex- * port season. . It was also agreed that the union investigate the meat industry with a view to forming a corporation of producers similar to that operating in the Argentine. New Markets Wanted. In view of the British Government’s restrictions on ' meat imports, and the difficulties which will probably arise next season in the marketing of ewe mutton, the conference requested the, Dominion executive to make representations to the Meat Board with a view to finding further markets, particularly in those European countries which are in need of primary produce and are anxious to