FREEZING INDUSTRY
RATIONALISATION SCHEME
STOCK I SITING A GRADING
NEW SYSTEMS PROPOSED
Abolition of all paddock selling and a reduction in the number of fat-stack buyers were among the far-reaching proposals made this week by the Auckland provincial executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union toward the rationalisation of the freezing industry. ll was unanimously decided to raise these and similar questions before the Dominion conference at Wellington next July.
The meeting urged the compulsory grading of all meat for export by Government graders. It was stated thal the grading as between certain cooperative works and private freezing works was not uniform, and therefore against the best interests of the indus-
Thc second proposal was the sale m all fat stock for export on hooks, D the exclusion of paddock selling. L was staled that the place of the unnecessarily large number of agenu how buying stock on the hoof, should be taken by small staffs of experts mo loved by the freezing woiks.
Thirdly, it was proposed to pool carcases when on the hooks in big lines, and to offer those parcels to buyers and/or the consignment of pools to independent buyers oversea, in sufficient quantities to maintain their connections.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19820, 23 December 1938, Page 8
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