Beef Supplies.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17238, 19 April 1930, Page 11

Beef Supplies.

The changes in relation to United Kingdom's beef Supplies is commented upon in the London Times by Sir William S. Haldane, of Edinburgh, who maintains that these demand more serious attention than at present is being given them. The change has been mainly brought about by the passing over of the United, States from the position of a great beefexporting country to that of requiring large and increasing imports of cattle and beef for the feeding their population. The United States emerged from the war with a very large cattle population, but with* the slump in 1921 the graziers turned to sheep. The writer further points out that in 1927 the United States, overleaping the tariff walls, “seized on the whole surplus of cattle and beef Canada or Mexico could spare, and at high prices. In 192") they had a net export of 4,250,00011) of" beef (fresh, canned, and cured), but in 1929 it changed to a net import of about 120,000,0001 b, besides 500,000 cattle. By the end of 1927 they had swallowed up all and more of the surplus Canada or Mexico could spare of cattle or beef, bringingdown Canada’s cattle numbers for 1928 half a million compared with 1925 when we got from Canada 110,000 entile and 10,000,0001 b of beef. Now; of course, we get nothing. In their increasing need for beef in 1928 the United States turned to New Zealand, and, together xvitli Canada, drew into the pflol, in spite of tariffs, 250,000 owt. of New Zealand beef and veal.”