QUALITY OF MEAT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21315, 17 October 1932, Page 11

QUALITY OF MEAT

IMPROVEMENT FOR EXPORT RESEARCH DEPARTMENT SOUGHT [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] GIS BORNE. Saturday The Poverty Bay executive of the Farmers' Union decider! to-day to support the Poverty Bay and East Coast Sheepowners' Union in its request to the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board to establish a research department. The matter was brought, before the meeting by Air. C. H. Williams, representing the. Shipowners' Union, who said that no effort had been made to follow up the valuable information gained from research in the past. Mr. Williams said tbe Meat Board had spent £17,000 on advertising in England last year, bpt it was no use advertising an article unless it was made attractive in itself. Every important concern had a research department in an endeavour to improve its commodity. The Gisborne delegates to the electoral committee did not get very far, apart from a promise that more money would be spent in research during the year. At present values every small increase obtainable, was most important, said Mr. Williams, especially as some of the byproducts were almost valueless. The cost of establishing a research department should not lie more than £4OOO to £SOOO a year, a cost of only l-12d a carcase. No two cooling floors in New Zealand were the same, and all were designed on different lines. Some conformity to one desirable principle should he aimed at, and this was one factor in which a research department would be valuable.