MEAT FOR BRITAIN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16612, 11 December 1919, Page 3

MEAT FOR BRITAIN.

FOOD CONTROLLER INTERVIEWED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. * LONDON, Doc. 5. Sir Thomas Mackenzie interviewed Mr. G. H. Roberts (the Minister for Food Control), asking whether tiie GovenAuent desired to renew' the butter contract- after August next. He pointed out that official returns showed that meat in cold storage iu Britain only amounted to 100,000 tons out of a total storage capacity of 220,000. If the balance of space was occupied by goods not requiring refrigeration, he asked Mr. Roberts to clear it out and facilitate the storage of refrigerated cargoes awaiting discharge. Sir Thomas Mackenzie also urged that as the Argentine contract expired in September the Government should utilise the tonnage thus released to bring the Imperial Government’s meat purchases from the Dominions, and also provide space for apples and rabbits. Mr. Roberts replied that Cabinet would bo called together to consider this matter forthwith. —Aus-N.Z. Cable Assn.