WIDER RESTRICTIONS ON MEAT FOR EXPORT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 48, 26 February 1941, Page 6

WIDER RESTRICTIONS ON MEAT FOR EXPORT

APPLICATION IN AUSTRALIA

“MORE PRODUCTION” SLOGAN IS DISCOURAGED

(Per Press Assn). WELLINGTON, Feb. 25. As a result of conversations he had with Ministers representative of the primary producers of New Zealand, Mr. H. L. Anthony, assistant-Minister of Commerce and Finance in the Commonwealth Government, said he had come to a conclusion that the meat restrictions in Australia wi re tar more severe than anything yet applied in New Zealand.

4” To us it appears inevitable,” he said, “that with shipping restrictions measures will have to be taken by both countries to meet changing circumstances brought about by the war. The method so far adopted in Australia has been to exclude from acceptance for freezing lower grades of meat, nad reserve available space for meats that will be more remunerative for the farmer, and which will bring in a higher price abroad. "What we are interested in is not what is to be done this season, but what is to be done next season, and we feel that, because of the mutuality of interests of the two countries in the supply of meat to the United Kingdom and the Middle East, we should be in close consultation on matters of genera! policy. We recognise, of course, that the peculiar circumstances of each country may require different application." Mr. Anthony stated that the Australian Meat Board, after reviewing the w’hole situation, recommended to the Commonwealth Government that it be desirable to prevent accumulation in Australia of large quantities of cheaper grades and types of meat, and proposed that the following types of meat be refused for acceptance for shipment overseas: All boneless bull beef. All boneless second and third quality cow beef. All boneless veal. All boneless beef briskets. All boneless beef shins and beef shanks. All beef offal, except beef livers and beef kidneys. All veal offal. All first, second and third quality lambs, under 231bs. All first and second quality lambs over 421bs. All third quality lambs over 28Ibs. All lamb offal, except livers. All second quality wether mutton, third quality wether mutton and second and third quality ewe mutton. All porker pork, inc luding chopper pork. All offal from pork and baconer PigsThe Commonwealth Government was completely in agreement with this suggestion, and arranged that it should become operative from January 31 this year. In addition to these restrictions, the Australian Meat Board was endeavouring to cultivate in the minds of individual farmers the undesirability of in any way increasing production, and, far as possible, to limit the number of lambs bom during next season. At the same time every endeavour is being tnade to keep breeding flocks at such a level that tre potential productive power will remain unimpaired. The New Zealand Minister of Marketing Mr. J. G. Barclay, who was present when Mr. Anthony was interviewed. agreed that measures would have to be taken to meet changing circumstances.