MEAT FOR BRITAIN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21414, 11 February 1933, Page 11

MEAT FOR BRITAIN

REGULATION OF SUPPLIES BENEFITS EMPHASISED (Received February 10, 5.55 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 10 The Minister of Agriculture, Major W. E. Elliot, speaking in Manchester, said the quantitative meat import regulation was not a mere expedient to meet a crisis but had come to stay. The Government had given a lead to the world in respect of the regulation of meat supplies. The arrangements made in November had undoubtedly avoided a calamitous situation. The foreign and Dominion Governments concerned had voluntarily cooperated in the system of regulation and recognised that it afforded a real solution of the problem of market stabilisation. Sir George Bowyer, speaking for the Minister of Agriculture in the House of Commons, told a questioner that in accordance with the arrangements made in November the marketings of South American chilled beef had been reduced 10 per cent in the period from November 15 to December 31, 1932. The arrivals in the first six weeks of 1933 were 10 per cent below the rates permitted under the Ottawa agreement. It was intended that the same reduction should continue to the end of March.