THE LONDON MEAT TRADE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1167, 30 June 1911, Page 8

THE LONDON MEAT TRADE.

minister for agriculture ■ APPROACHED. While tho Hon. Thomas Mackeur.io (Minister for Agriculture) was at Dannevirkc this week, during an interval between .the withdrawal of 0110 deputation and tho arrival nf another, :>lr. Armstrong, president of the Dnimevh'kc Agricultural and I\astoral Association, introduced the question of tho fending of a representative Homo to look after the , New Zealand producers' interests. He said , that in the Dannevirke district Mr. Lysnar had addressed meetings, and now the- local committee had been successful in raisins; «£270 towards the maintenance .tit" a mail at Homo. The producers, lie thought, were going to ask the Government to subsidise the amount collected in tho Dominion. .■ Were the Government prepared to do anything? . The Minister said that in thc'first placo they would require to know what the man at Home was -going to do. ■ Personally, ho kn-jw what the big problsms at Homo were, and it needed a. man of-large . experience to grasp the position of affairs. • The -Minister, in explaining tho system prevailing at Home, said that the proiluco was discharged into barges and.also at the Victoria Docks. It was a pecu-liar-fact that the least damage is found in tho cold storage docks, highest up the ■river. Tho question of handling was not one that was-goinj to Ixs dealt with very easily. He pointed out that there was not. Jialf the. damage done that was reported— danwgo had been alleged whero there was no damage at all. . Ho had not slightest hesitation in saying that it "was necessary to mend'l ho way of assessing damage. -The ma:'" to guard the producers' interests must lis in a position to stip in and say what he thinks in regard to the assessing. ... Mr. Armstrong: There is no one there to represent us at all.. The Minister: Your representative is not.allowed a. voice in matters.- . Continuing. Mr. Jiackenzio said that after the first.claim had been settled, the buyer , had tho right to have the meat assessed again, and thereby get a slice out of tho New Zealand producers. Mr. . Armstrong: Well, if the' Government won't send i man Home we must. The Minister: When I came from Home I had a scheme I wished to place before the country, but no one would listen to it. Mr. Armstrong suggested that the Minister should place his scheme before Parliament .now—Dannevirke "News."