CO-OPERATIVE MEAT POOL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19990, 15 July 1939, Page 7

CO-OPERATIVE MEAT POOL

FARMERS APPROVE LEVY CONFERENCE REMITS (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A remit was carried at the annual conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union endorsing a proposal to levy the necessary fraction of a penny a pound to form a cooperative meat pool. The conference urges the evolution by the meat board of a practicable and equitable scheme for the removal of surplus old ewes from the market, such a scheme to be put into operation at the beginning of next export season. Remits were also carried as follow: —

That the union investigate the meat industry with a view to forming a corporation of producers similar to that operating in Argentina.

That in view of the British Government’s restrictions on meat imports and the difficulties which will probably arise next season in the marketing Of ewe mutton, th e conference requests the Dominion executive to make representations to the Moat Board with a view to finding further markets, particularly in those European countries which are in need of our primary produce and are anxious to extend their trade. A motion urging the Dominion executive to press for a scheme covering the sale o" wool, such a scheme to give a measure of security against price fluctuations without loss of producer-control, was carried and the matter was referred to the wool publicity committee.