THE MEAT POOL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18430, 14 March 1922, Page 6

THE MEAT POOL.

BOARD MEETS TO-MORROW. LEVYING THE COST. (per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 14. The Meat Pool Board will meet in Wellington on Wednesday to appoint a chairman and transact preliminary business. It is understood a gentleman fully conversant with all the aspects of the Meat Distribution business will be appointed London agent with a staff of three or four to assist him. In a supplement to the New Zealand •‘Gazette” issued on Saturday last these maximum charges payable in respect to meat exported from New Zealand were fixed by the Gov-ernor-General in the Executive Council as follows: (a) In the case of lamb or mutton 2d per carcase; (b) In the case of beef Id per quarter or 2d per side. In terms of section 13 of the Meat Export Control Act 1921-22 the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board appointed under that act has fixed the following amounts as charges to be paid by way of levy on all meat shipped on an exporting vessel from New Zealand on and from to-day; (a* In the case of lamb or mutton Id per carcase and (b) in the case Of beet 4d per quarter or Id per side. At the Conference of Producers held on January 10th the feeling was unanimous that the cost of organisation, control and export of meat from New Zealand should be borne by . the producers themselves and should not be a charge on the consolidated revenue and in accordance with that desire this levy Las been arranged. The amount to be paid is small but it is anticipated that the total proceeds will be sufficient provision in the meantime for the ex penditure of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, both in New Zealand and in London.