MEAT COMMANDEER

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10507, 7 February 1920, Page 6

MEAT COMMANDEER

“NO CHANGE/’ SAYS PREMIER. WILL MEET, DEPUTATION ON MONDAY. “There is no change reported in tho • position, at Homo with regard to tho aneat commandeer,” stated the Prime Minister to a “Times" representative 'yesterday. . i He added - that ho had arranged to. iineet on .Monday next a dexmtation ifronl tile Ecilding Farmers’ Union, ! which- hud-passed on -Thuredtiy-thu following resolutions, and had appointed the deputation to place them betoro 'him: (1) “That this meeting calls iupon the Now . Zealand Government to iurge on tho British Government-, the iscrious position .which will arise in the I Dominion , with the-lilting of the requisition, of moat, and' to impress upon the Imperial Government the necessity of clearing all meat from the New (Zealand stores, at the end of tho contract, or of continuing the purchase ;until such time as the meat can be cleared; also to announce its policy iat the earliest possible moment, and .to state how it will meet the position which will arise on June 30th’'; (2j “that this meeting urges upon the Government tho advisability of'sentiing (to. ..England, at., the. earliest, possible 'date the commission as at present constituted, namely, Dr Reakcs, Mr Poison, Mr H. Burrell, and Mr D. Jones, AI.P., -for tho purpose of assisting the Government to solve tho question of the disposal of our,meat.’’