BRITISH MEAT STOCKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18706, 12 May 1924, Page 13

BRITISH MEAT STOCKS.

QUANTITIES IN STORE.

BEQUEST FOR STATISTICS.

- The New Zealand Meat Producers' Board states that its London manager has been co-operating with the * High Commissioner in the matter of inducing the British Government to insist upon the stocks of refrigerated meat he'd in cold stores being published monthly, as is done' in America and elsewhere. v The .attention of the Under-Secretary of State has been drawn to a paragraph contained in the interim report made by the Departmental Committee on distribution and prices of agricultural produce, dealing with the advisability of statistics being available, showing the total quantities of various classes of . meat in , cold storage, and urging that the recommendation embodied in the. report in question should be given effect at as early a date as is practicable. This decision of the Departmental Committee at Home was the result of special representations made by the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board. [■'."■"■':': ■".':.'■ \ ":■-..' It has been further pointed out that every meat-producing country in ' the world publishes statements as to the shipments made to various countries, and that in the United States for some considerable time past statistics have been' collected and published of the stocks in cold store. As far as Great Britain is concerned, as soon as meat arrives and is stored, information regarding it is no longer available.