MEAT IMPORTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 302, 22 December 1933, Page 7

MEAT IMPORTS

THE BRITISH MARKET. NEXT QUARTER’S QUOTAS. ( British Official Wirelax*, j RUGBY, Dec. 20. The Minister of Agriculture, in a ong statement on the live stock situation in the House of Commons, said that notwithstanding the efforts made since November, 1932, to hold and improve the situation of the wholesale meat market, the returns from the feeding of cattle continued to be unsatisfactory. In these circumstances at was essential to afford some relief in respect of the supplies imported , for immediate slaughter. Accordingly, it was intended to issue an order limiting the import of fat cattle from the Irish Free State to 50 per cent, for the three months ended March 31, as compared with the corresponding period of last year. As regarded Canada, the Dominion Government had agreed to co-operate by stabilising the exports of cattle, both fat and store, to this market for the first quarter of the coming year at rhe figure of the first quarter of last year. Arrangements were being made to limit imports in the next quarter of foreign canned beef and/or to reduce the imports from foreign countries of r hilled beef by the same extent as in the first quarter of last year. As arranged at Ottawa imports of frozen beef from foreign countries will be reduced in the next quarter by 30 per cent. Negotiations for readjusting the proportion of imported bone and boneless meat from foreign countries are under The situation of the bacon market is under consideration, and if necessary a reduction of imports from foreign countries by a further 7 pei cent, on March 1 and an additional 3 per cent, on June 1 will be effected. ATTITUDE OF DOMINIONS BRITISH DIFFERENTIATION (Times Cable). Received Dec. 21, 11.5 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 21. The London Times, in an editorial, says: “It is remarkable how universally the House of Commons appeared to accept the necessity of differentiating between the Dominions ready, and those not roadv, to co-operate with Britain in the meat restrictions. It remains to be seen whether limitation can be satisfactory to the producers and consumers without embracing distributors. The Minister appreciates the danger of disproportionate benefits to the retailers, compelling the consumer to shoulder the burden of the re«to?-ation cf remunerative price levels to the producers.”