WHEAT AND MEAT

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14603, 2 March 1921, Page 5

WHEAT AND MEAT

WHEAT CONFERENCE FAILS.

PRICE AND THE WORLD’S PARITY,

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

WELLINGTON, Tuesday.

Representatives of wheat growers spent to-day conferring with the Minister of Agriculture regarding the fixture of the prices l for next season’s wheat. Afterwards they interviewed the Prime Minister, who informed the press that there was nothing definite to say. It is understood that the reason for the absence of news is the complete failure to reconcile the prices asked by the growers and that which the Government considers would be reasonable having legard to the world’s prices in the near future. Further negotiations will take place this Week.

HOLDING UP MEAT EXPORT.

TILL PRICES STABILISE. (By Telegraph.-—Press Association.! WANGANUI, Tuesday. The serious slump in the price of meat was referred to by Mr W. J. Polsen, Wellington, provincial president of the Farmers’ Union, at a meeting of the Fordell branch of the Farmers’ Union this evening. It was resolved that the Government be asked to confer with the freezing companies of New Zealand with a view to some arrangement being made by which the meat shall be held in New Zealand until the whole of the Imperial meat shall have been shipped and the congestion at the English end removed. PRICES TO BE REDUCED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. AUCKLAND, Wednesday. The Auckland master butchers have decided to reduce the price of meat as from Monday next. The reduction, ;t is said, will range from id to id per lb.