FREEZING INDUSTRY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1846, 14 January 1920, Page 3

FREEZING INDUSTRY.

PROBLEMS FOR SOLUTION. BEMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS. [Special lo The Sun.] WELLINGTON, January 1.°.. A conference of representatives of the freezing companies operating in New Zealand is to be held in Wellington on Friday, to discuss matters affecting the industry. No douht the principal matters of discussion will be the available shipping space for the season, and the proposals which are being made for an extension of the requisition of meat by the Imperial Government. It is generally understood that the exporters of meat are not of one mind as to the advisability of the extension of the requisition, but the belief in official quarters seems to be that the British Government wishes, as soon as possible, to take off all restrictions on trade, in order to allow trade to get back to the normal state. In support of this view, there is the cable news to the effect that control of British dairy produce is to cease at the end of the present month. It is argued that if British dairy produce is not to be controlled it will not be possible «for the British Government to control overseas produce competing with it. The present is a time of scarcity in Great Britain, being midwinter, but, with the coming of spring, with a free market, prices should soon come to their permanent peace level. All this, it is suggested, applies to other produce quite as much as to dairy produce.