BEEF SUBSIDY CRITICISMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21990, 22 December 1934, Page 20

BEEF SUBSIDY CRITICISMS

STABILITY OF CATTLE TRADE Tlio uneasiness fol fc by Scottish fanners over the position in tho livestock and beef markets is reflected by tho North British Agriculturist. How, it is asked, is tho meat- subsidy policy to end? Already, this newspaper, states, an immense amount of damage has been dono to tho stability of tho cattle trade by sweeping into fat markets every week hundreds of immature beasts that should not reach the salo ring for weeks, thus impoverishing the country of stores lor future needs. This is declared to he all the result of a delirious race to share in a Government bounty which is not being iestrictcd to the purpose for which it was intended. What the situation will bo by March when the subsidy policy conies to an end it is not, tho iNortli British Agriculturist comments, pleasant to contemplate. There is, it continues, talk of the temporary subsidy being followed by some permanent policy of/ so 1110 sort and no doubt may be ibe contention, although it is easy iO realise how the conditions foi such a policy are likely to be complicated by the present drainage of store cattle which are being uneconomic-ally used up and cannot bo replaced all of a sudden.