EMPIRE MEAT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17231, 10 April 1930, Page 13

EMPIRE MEAT

SUPPLY SHRINKING FAST COMPETITION OF U.S.A. LONDON. I'd). 25. “The Americans have eaten us out ot hearth and home in Canada, so to speak,” declares the Tunes, explaining tliat Great Britain's supplies of meat from the rest of the. Empire and from ,South America are shrinking last tiecause of competition by the .ITiit-ed States. Sir William Haldane, an authority on British meat, supplies, explains that the I’nited States, formerly a great beefexporting country, has now become an importer of meat in vast (plantdies to feed her evergrowing population. The consequence has been that whereas Britain in 1925 got from Canada 110.090 cattle anil 10.0C0.C00 puun Is ot heel, she now gets nothing. Not- only this, hut the l iiited Mates has encroached on British supplies Iron) .New Zealand and Australia, as well as invaded the South Amoriian market tor canned heel. Parallel with t his development- there have 1 101*11 heavy reductions in. the numbers of cattle in all beefiirnducing enuniries. For example. Canada's herds have been reduced--400,000 head in live years—with the inevitable result, says the Times, that dearer prices must ionic in future. 'I lie Times therefore urges British tanners to get back into the beef-raising industry, in breed high-grade cattle, so as to maintain the nation's supplies of meat and take advantage of better prices than are at, present.