FARMERS’ FREEZING WORKS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3808, 8 March 1927, Page 29

FARMERS’ FREEZING WORKS.

WELLINGTON, March 5, The Dominion Executive of the Farmers’ Union, at its last meeting, passed a resolution viewing with alarm the apathy .of the Meat Board towards the safeguarding of the Farmers’ Freezing Works, and asking that a committee of inquiry be appointed to investigate at once tne working of smaller works. The board has replied lengthily that that subject has frequently been discussed at various meetings, and the suggestion of apathy is quite contrary to fact. It is pointed - out that some of the works .are in their present condition because the turnover is too small to enable them to work profitably at competitive rates, and it is suggested that the position of many farmers’ companies is due to a large extent, to the apathy of the farmers themselves in not patronising their own works. It cannot see that a committee of inquiry could obtain fuller information than what the board possesses. The whole information has been thoroughly sifted and examined, and the board’s policy has been formulated with the whole of the evidence before it.