THE BEEF INDUSTRY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 4, 28 October 1924, Page 6

THE BEEF INDUSTRY

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Brisbane, October- 28.-V

Speaking.on the beef industry at Rockhampton Mr Bruce said the future of the mttle gopd v During the last three ’yjeara the dustry had been faced with competition from. Argentine, and the resultant struggle had reacted against high-prices for Australian beef, ' but Argentina, too, had been losing money. They were reaching the,,limit and the end must come soon'- ,J b was certain that Argentine) prices would have* to rise in the near future and that rise would have a greater effect on the Australian heef industry so far as export trade was concerned!:-ijrih-ain was now alive to the necessity of keeping the cattle industry-going;‘“Tf the proposal to establish a licensing board in Britain,. which would give li(-eri.se.s/ to import bhST WSnTcountries other than the Dominions only when supplies from the sorbed, was adopted it an extraordinary difference t,o the Australian meat trade.