QUALITY OF STOCK

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20055, 29 September 1939, Page 4

QUALITY OF STOCK

MAINTAIN STANDARD APPEAL TO FARMERS REASONABLE PRICE (Special to the Herald.) ' WAIROA, this day. A statement that it was the production of this country that kept the wheels of industry going was made by Mr. T. le C. Powdrell, a member of the electoral committee of the New Zealand Meat Board, when urging the farmers to maintain the standard of their stock, at the monthly meeting of the Wairoa branch of the Farmers’ Union. Mr. Powdrell said that the farmers at present were doubtful as to what price they were going to receive for their produce in the view of the disturbed state of affairs in Europe, The prices that were to be given, he added, were not in the hands of the Meat Board, but when they did come down it would be a fair and reasonable price for the farmers to carry on the industry.

“We should endeavour to keep up the standard of our stock,’’ stated Mr. Powdrell, who added that they should produce meat that they would not be ashamed of at “the other end.’’ They did not want a repetition of the bad dislocation of trade that was experienced at the end of the last war. The speaker stated that New Zealand troops overseas during the Great War were ashamed of the quality of the meat seen at “the other end.” That state of affairs did New Zealand a lot of harm and must be avoided during the present conflict. Referring to the question of storage, Mr. Powdrell said that Wairoa possessed good storage, but a “poor" shipping connection. It would probably not be necessary for the Wairoa works to build extensions for storage purposes..

, “We must keep up, the', production best as possible, arid our duality." concluded Mr, Powdrell.