MEAT MARKETING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1939, Page 6

MEAT MARKETING

MR L. T. DANIELL’S POOL PROPOSAL APPROVED BY FARMERS’ CONFERENCE. NEED OF FURTHER MARKETS STRESSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A proposal to establish a co-opera-tive meat pool, together with a scheme for the disposal of surplus old ewes by removing them from the market, was supported by the conference in Wellington of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union yesterday. Mr L. T. Daniell, Wairarapa, propounding the scheme, said that it was essential that farmers should receive a fair price for their ewes, on which the sheep industry was based. He moved that the conference should endorse the proposal to levy the necessary fraction of a penny a pound for the formation of a co-operative meat pool, and should urge the evolution by the Meat Board of a practical and equitable scheme for the removal of surplus old ewes from the market, such scheme to be put into operation at the beginning of the next export season. The motion was passed, and it was recommended that Mr Daniell should be given the opportunity of expounding his scheme before the Meat Board. It was decided also to investigate the meat industry with a view to establishing a corporation of producers similar to that operating in the Argentine. In view of the British Government’s restrictions on meat imports, and the difficulties which would probably arise next season in marketing ewe mutton, the conference decided to request the Dominion executive to make representations to the Meat Board with a view to finding further markets, particularly in those European countries in need of New Zealand’s primary produce, and anxious to extend their markets.