BRITISH BEEF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 13, 16 January 1936, Page 7

BRITISH BEEF

THE HOME INDUSTRY - QUESTION OF ASSISTANCE. j Received Jan. .15, 8.30 p.m. LONDON, Jan. .14, The National Farmers’ Union passed a resolution urging the Government to carry out without delay its announced long-term policy of assistance for United Kingdom beef producers in view of the deplorable position of the industry. A delegate asked: “As the, negotiations of the Government with the Dominions and foreign countries are proceeding in secret, what, guarantee is there that we will not be sold another pup?’ ’ Mr. Williams, chairman of the Livestock Committee, said that when the agreements expired the Government would be able to impose a tariff or levy. The union had received assurances of action. “We have seen the Minister and know that he is negotiating with the Dominions and foreign meat producers for the regulation of quantities during the coming year,’’ he said. The Duke of Kent, speaking at a union dinner in the evening, referred to Mr. Baxter’s visit tn New Zealand in 1933 as illustrating the value of cooperation. Mr. Elliot said that since 1931 the home production cf beef had expanded by one million and a-quarter hundredweights. Mutton and lamb had similarly expanded. Producers’ prices between 1932-35 had risen .13 per cent, without a corresponding rise against consumers. The Government intended to fulfil its pledges of a. levy ind subsidy for beef.