UNDER A CLOUD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 5 September 1932, Page 5

UNDER A CLOUD

AUSTRALIAN MEAT IN ENGLAND

STATEMENT BY MR \V. M. HUGHES “VESTED INTERESTS MUST BE FOUGHT” (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received sth September, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, 4th’September. Mr W. M. Hughes, who is staying at Lord Carson’s country home, Kent, told a Press Association representative that during an extended tour of Britain he had looked in vain for signs of Australian goods in shop windows outside London. “One can journey all day through fair-sized towns without finding a shop selling Australian goods. Thus in Yorkshire one would never know that Australia was part of the Empire. Australian meat is under a cloud. Interested people see to it that it is kept well under, whereas New Zealand lamb cuts quite a respectable figure.” He added! “Vested interests must be fought by the best men procurable, backed adequately financially.” comparisonTn quality AUSTRALIAN AND ARGENTINIAN (Received sth September, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, 4th September. The “Daily Telegraph’s” agricultural editor, commenting on Australian attempts to supply chilled meat, emplias- '* ises the deficiency in the quality of Australian cattle compared with the Argentine, which has achieved excellence • through the importation of the best pedigreed British bulls, which Australia refuses to do through fear of foot and mouth disease. The writer is of the opinion that at the present rate of progress the budding up of Australian herds will take ten or fifteen years before it reaches the Argentinian standard. He conversely mentions that Australia and New Zealand through the importation of

British strains had achieved merit in mutton and lamb unknown to Argentine.