OUR FROZEN MEAT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1646, 13 January 1913, Page 5

OUR FROZEN MEAT.

ITBTREATMENT IN LONDON. MR. LYSNAR'S MISSION. "OUT OF THE OLD RUT." By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright 1 Sydney, January 11. , Mr.; W. D. . Lysnar, of Gisborne, has J arrived here. Ho visited England on - behalf of tho New Zealand Producers' 8 Association to report on the handling of 1 New Zealand frozen produce. ' 0 Ho stated in an interview: "The Lon- - don dook authorities acknowledged that j in 1910 their system of distributing prot duoe from ships' side at the. Port of Lonj don was unsatisfactory, ,and promised re--3 forms; which tho New Zealand committee . understood would be made within eighteen months. Tho reforms are still as far off as ever. The New Zealand Committee in 1010 especially requested that the South- • West ■ India Docks should be especially equipped for the New Zealand trade. The Port of London Authorities • were agreed t able, but, through pressure brought by the . London importers, tho authorities decided 1 to make the suggested improvements at ; Albert and Victoria' Dock instead of at , the South-West India Dook. The Albert and Victoria Dock is ten milee lower, down •' the Thames, necessitating "New Zfaland , prodnoe travelling the extra distance and 1 being. subjected to extra handling. The soheme: did not relievo New Zealand's main • complaint, namely, the Wretched barging system, whioh is stifling • the ' trade, by first raining products and then ' increasing the cost to the consumer. ; "We intend to walk 'right away from • London, and leave .it . quietly ; alone," ' said Mr. Lysnar., -'fit-"is impossible at, • this distance to fore® the London anthor--1 ities out of the old rut. We .propose to • form a new association of producers at 1 the London end, which will Receive and market .".our. produce,,;,thns,,ensuring the 1 profits going to the producer, and elimin--1 ating .the grasping middleman as far as ' possible." 1 ; .;