EXPORT MEATS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 16 October 1941, Page 7

EXPORT MEATS

PRH ES THIS S lAS ON , CHANGE LIKELY TO BE MADE Christchurch. Oct. 15. Differences in (he price of high grade •and lower grade export meats will, it is believed, be made more marked in the schedule of prices for the coming export season, which the Minister of Agriculture and Marketing. Mr Barclay. said last week would be announced soon. It is understood that a series of conferences among the Government and various interests connected with the trade has been completed, and Hint encouragement of the production of lighter and therefore more valuable lambs. ; wethers and ewes for export was agreed I upon. For many months those connected J with the meat export trade have be- : lieved that some alteration in price ■ schedules to bring about this result was i contemplated. Many rumours gained i currency, among the most persistent bej ing one that the export of certain ; classes would be abandoned altogether, i and that farmers who normally prn- | duced them would be compensated | from funds built up from a levy on thp j more valuable export. 1 It is reported now that the new j schedule is likely to allow of approxiI matel.v the same prices as last year be- , ing paid for light lambs, wethers, and owes, but for prices lower than those iof last year being paid for heavier I weights. Recently it has been profitable to produce some of the heavier grades of meat as the lighter and usu- ' ally more valuable grades. The object. I it is stated, is to produce somewhere j about a normal year’s meat output. i about 275.000 tons, for export, but to I make it more valuable. —P.A.