PORK OR BOBBY BEEF

Wairarapa Age, 18 July 1934, Page 5

PORK OR BOBBY BEEF

DEVELOPMENT OF EXPORT TRADE. DAIRY FARMER MUST MAKE CHOICE. STATEMENT ON RECENT | EMBARGO. HAWERA, July J 7. A statement on the position arising out of the prohibition of thq export of boneless veal and beef was made by Mr. T. A. Winks, Government representative on the Meat Board, in the course of which he pointed out that New Zealand was faeed with the necessity of choosing between the bobby calf industry and bacon and pork in considering the future development of the meat export trade. “It is commonly thought that the Meat Board sacrificed the dairy farmer in prohibiting the export of boneless beef and boneless veal,” said Mr. Winks. “The position is that the Imperial Government has just wakened up to the fact that the export of meat from New Zealand exceeds the allowance under the Ottawa Agreement and has stopped the export of all beef until the negotiations now proceeding between the two Governments are satisfactorily arranged. The Meat Board met toe Dairy Board in conference last Friday and produced figures which snow an alarming increase on the quantities arranged at Ottawa. The position is decidedly serious from the grazier s point of view as well as the dairy farmers. The pork industry has im creased its output by many thousands rfl/T* aDd the dairy farmer may be J ° P ?. n 1° choose between pork and boneless beef and veal for export purposes. That one point is under X the Cb’vernment and the Meat Board. When the negotiation; e omptoed and the Meat Board kn-ows what is expected of it the Wrd w in c w . th the "’ Board’s committee and these bodiZ * tion from the Governmc*