MUTTON SURPLUS
DOMINION’S SUPPLY REPORTED TAKING OVER BRITISH GOVERNMENT MEAT BOARD TO MEET (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. It is reported that the British Government has decided, as a defence precaution, to take over the whole of New Zealand’s mutton surplus, amounting to about 1,000,000 carcases. No confirmation c'ould be obtained from the freezing companies or the local representative of the Meat Producers’ Board, Mr. 11. D. Acland. The board, he said, would meet in Wellington to-morrow, but be knew nothing of any decision to take Over the surplus this season.
Because of the restriction placed on New Zealand exports of mutton and lamb to Britain and heavy killings, the Dominion has a surplus of between 25,000 and 27,000 tons. It is assumed, if the report is correct, that Britain would want New Zealand mutton for canning. In exploring possible uses for the Dominion’s surplus, the Meat Board considered canning. It was found that the army and navy preferred canned beef and -only 3000 out of every 70,000 tins of canned meat sold in England were mutton.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20028, 29 August 1939, Page 7
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