MEAT TRADE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17951, 1 December 1932, Page 9

MEAT TRADE

BENEFITS FROM OTTAWA

MR. CRAMSIE'S ANALYSIS

SYDNEY, No.-. 19.

Mr. J. 18. Cramsie, formerly chairman of the Metropolitan Meat Industry Board, and of tho Australian Meat Council, in an address analysed the Ottawa agreement in its relation to the meat trade to illustrate its benefits to the Commonwealth and its still greater possibilities with proper organisation. Meat prices c:i the London market, said .Mr. Cramsie, had risen, since tho Ottawa Conference, from Id to l£d a lb., resulting in an increased value of 25s a head on every bullock, 4s on every grown sheep, and 3s on every lamb which Australia was in a position to market to-day. It would, ho bo right to say that on last year’s ex-’ port season that would have meant £1,000,000 to Australia. What tlinv had gained to-day, lie proceeded, was as nothing compared with what they were going to gain with proper organisation of the trade. I here had been established for the first time the principle of trade between Great Britain and her Dominions, with preference to the latter. They could trade ■ with Great Britain only on a reciprocal basis. They must, as far as possible, buy British goods. ARGENTINE’S EXAMPLE Mr. Cramsie Said the meat trade had gone to the Argentine simply because th|it country, a|iye to every possibility, had taken nold of tho trade and handled it better than Australia had done. Australia could recover her own trade if slm followed the Argentine methods, in the directions, for example, of importing the best blood stock from Great Britain, and improving her pastures. Australia also needed organised markets, which sho had not had up to the pre-

sent. Mr. Cramsie added that ho believed there was every possibility that as ft result of the Ottawa Conference British investors would turn their eyes more towards the Dominions, to the mutual benefit of Groat Britain and her outlying parts, and of the youth of the Empire who wero seeking outlets. If tho nfoney Which had been invested in the Argentine pad been invested in Australia this country would have had tho development and prosperity of tho Argentine. .. .. ’There was no country in the world, ho believed, to which British investors could turn their eyes more hopefully today Ham Australia.