BEEP PRODUCERS PROTEST

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2413, 19 March 1915, Page 8

BEEP PRODUCERS PROTEST

!"■ THE ARMY'MEAT CONTRACTS, i ' (By Telegraph.—Press'Association.) : Palmerston North, ■ March 18. i.'''■ . At, a representative meeting of far- | mers;' field .' here "to-day for the purpose . : of discussing the matter of the arrange- ! meiits made by the Government for the ' acquisition of .'meat supplies, the follow- • ling resolutions were . carried unanimously:— "That this-meeting of beef producers of the Manawatu, Rangitikei, and Horo;wheiiua districts, while agreeable to the. i ■< prices arranged for meat, emphatically - / protests against 'tlie. arrangements;, i.' -made by tho Government with the freezi : ing compafiies for the purchase of meat i for Amiy, supplies, inasmuch as arrange- >.■■■ ments.-i/ere made without consulting the producer, and oil' account of the / difhculty of securing freezing space to i sell f.0.b.-to the Government, the freez- ■ ing companies have practically,, a' moil-.' i opolv .of>' buying at their own'prices:" r,:: "That in tho opinion of this meeting * ■ i*. is considered advisable that- the GovI : ernment control the freezing works in i order that producers niay not be so ex- ' ploited jby such companies refusing to v freeze on owners' accounts." , . -