MEAT POLICY

Southland Times, Issue 22487, 23 January 1935, Page 7

MEAT POLICY

FAT CATTLE PRICES BRITISH FARMERS’ POSITION STABILIZATION WANTED (United Press Assn—Telegraph Copyright.) London, January 21. “It is tragic that the Ottawa pledge giving the Home farmer first pick of the Home market has never been implemented,” says Sir Arthur Hazlerigg in a letter to The Times in condemning Britain’s allowances to the Dominions for January to March meat shipments. “I calculate,” says Sir Arthur Hazlerigg, “that the total for the three months’ restriction will be 120,000 to 140,000 hundredweights, including extra Irish supplies. For this reason the cattlemen of Britain may as well stop farming and allow the land to become derelict. Australian and New Zealand beef and veal have been slightly cut, while the other Dominions have been slightly increased. The Australian and New Zealand cuts are too little to enable Britain to further curtail foreign chilled beef. Our only hope is a meat policy similar to the wheat quota vzhereby a Bill should be introduced stabilizing fat cattle prices at an economic figure, enabling breeders, and grazers to obtain a bare living.” CONFERENCE PROPOSED MR BRUCE RETURNS. (United Press Assn— Telegraph Copyright.) London, January 21. In view of Mr Bruce’s return from Geneva to-night, Mr Thomas and Mr Elliot have invited the High Commissioners to a meeting for to-morrow, to arrange meat regulations in the interim between the termination of the January-March period and Mr Lyons’s arrival, before which no long-term decision will be reached.