REDUCED FREIGHT ON MEAT.

Southland Times, Issue 19395, 8 November 1924, Page 13 (Supplement)

REDUCED FREIGHT ON MEAT.

WHOSE THE CREDIT t A report by the Meat Control Board supplied to the meeting of the Dominion executive of the Farmers’ Union referred to the great saving the board had affected to the producers of the Dominion through obtaining reductions in freights. The president (Mr. W. J. Polson) said that the Meat Board had done excellent work but they slightly overdid their claim that they had alone been responsible for reducing shipping freights. The meat producers of Australia had benefited to the same extent by the induction in freights. A delegate: The New Zealand Board takes credit for obtaining the reductions for the Australian producers. Mr. Polson said he did not wish to throw any bricks at the Meat Board, but their claim regarding what they had done in the matter of reduction in freights was getting just a trifle threadbare. Mr. R. Dunn (South Taranaki) : Tire present schedule of freights will stand for the next three years, so the Meat Board can now exercise their minds with matters which might bring more material benefit to New Zealand pastoralists. The Meat Board, in its report, also referred to the high prices at which New Zealand meat was being retailed at Home. Mr. J. G. Anderson (Pelorous) contended that many of the people who sold New Zealand meat at home were also speculators. He thought the Meat Board should endeavour to take steps to sell New Zealand meat.