EFFORT TO SAVE FATS

Chronicle (Levin), 13 April 1946, Page 7

EFFORT TO SAVE FATS

♦ "The Board is seriously concerned with tiie position tliat wiiilst Britain is so urgently in need of fats, hundreds of ton's are being wasted annually on farms throughout the Dominioii due to the fact that under present eonditions of low prices and the high eost of containers, it is an unecononiie proposition t'or the farmer to save fat for production," writes the New Zealand Meal Board in connection with the campaigu which the Board proposes to insiitucc to save fat for shipping to England. flie nxatter has been referred to the New, Zealand Farmers' Union for assistauce and this organisation is appealiug through its branelics for the utiuost cooperatiou.' The Xloat Board 's pro posals envisage the payment of a sinai, subsidv to farmers tor all fat supplied to all Xirins likely to purchase fat from small suppliers. Farmers would arrange for all fat to be saved and prepared foi sending olf to the flrms concerned. The suiisidy would be paid against the pro ductioii of account s.iles receivcd froui llie firm taking the ' fat by the Agri•ultural Department. The proposals are now in the process of being (inalised and through braiu-hes of-' the Farmers' Union and Federated Fanners, inforination vvill be released ;ts to the procedure to be adopted wlieu the schemc is introcluced.