MEAT BOARD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27450, 25 July 1950, Page 6

MEAT BOARD

Nominations For Electoral College FREEZING WORKS ISSUE Considerable interest is being displayed among farmers in the election ,of three delegates to represent the Southland district on the Electoral College of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board. Six nominations have been received and a postal ballot will be conducted. The candidates are Messrs D. Brown (Drummond, sitting member), E. A. Cameron (Wendonside), H. H. Holms (Waimahaka), H. P. Mclntyre (Maitland, sitting member), J. A. Miller (Balclutha) and C. J. Speight (Ohai, sitting member). The main issue at stake is the proposal to allow a proprietary company comprising 50 per cent. Southland farmers and 50 per cent. W. and R. Fletcher’s, a subsidiary company of Vesteys, to build a new freezing works in Southland. This move is strongly opposed by the new candidates, Messrs Cameron, Holms and Miller. This question has been the subject of much controversy in the past years. The candidates opposing the sitting members have made it known that they are opposed to overseas vested interests obtaining a larger share of the meat trade in New Zealand and contend that when the time comes for new works to be built in Southland it should be possible for the farmers to build them and take a greater share in the ownership and control of the works. They state that freezing works in Southland operated by an overseas firm would have a detrimental effect on the South Otago works.