EXPORT MUTTON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1941, Page 4

EXPORT MUTTON

TRIMMING OF CARCASES DEMONSTRATED BRITAIN NEEDS PROTEINS BEFORE FATS. MR S. TIMBS EXPLAINS HIS METHOD. The ease for trimming mutton carcases before export to Britain was explained to a meeting of . farmers in Masterton yesterday, by Mr S. Timbs, of Wanganui. Speaking as a man with a lifetime experience of the meat trade, both in Britain, and in New Zealand, Ml' Timbs said the war time demand at Home at this moment was for saleable meat, rich in protein food value and without surplus fat. Trimming made every pound of meat in each carcase valuable to the English housewife, and it reduced the shipping space necessary for the average carcase from 1,400 to 1100 cubic inches Tn the Great War Britain had wanted fats but in this war the urgent need was proteins such as were found in the flesh but not in the fat of meat. Absolute maximum food value must be got from the IJlbs of meat per week rationed to each civilian. Mr Timbs explained how he had placed his case for carcase-trimming before every responsible authority,’ including the Government and the Meat Board, and each, he said, had referred him to the others without giving any decision. Then after months had passed the Meat Board rejected the proposal, without giving any reasons for their attitude. Mr G. F. Moore. ‘'Bushey Park," offered meat worth £lOOO as an experimental consignment, to be distributed in a bombed area, but permission for this was refused. The Meat Board considered that the 201bs of matter trimmed from each carcase was a waste of meat but Mr Timbs said that in the grave emergency the Empire was now facing - , this 201bs was considered to be without food value in England and the space it occupied in our heavily-taxed produce ships was too acutely valuable to be wasted.

Proposing a vote of thanks to Mr Timbs’s fight for the meat trade voicing farmers’ appreciation not only of the talk but particularly of Mr Timbes’s fight for the meat trade against ihe opposition of the New Zealand Meat Board. "We are lucky indeed," said Mr Kebbell, “to have a man like Mr Timbs to fight our battles for us.” "Trimming lamb carcases alone, would have kept us within our quota,” said Mr L. T. Daniell, seconding the motion of thanks and supporting Mr Timbs’s proposal. “The South Americans have been doing this for months; we have not.” Demonstrating on an 821 b carcase, Mr Timbs removed 221 b of what he considered in present circumstances to be surplus and useless poundage.