FUTURE FOR N.Z. BEEF

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 193, 1 September 1937, Page 7

FUTURE FOR N.Z. BEEF

Our Owu Correspondent),

Alarm at Sale of South Island Meat Wprks

(From

WAIPUKURAU, Last Ni^ht. Reporting briefly on the recent meeting of the New Zealand Meat Produc ers' Board at the meeting of the Hawke's Bay Provincial District Exeeutive of the Farmers' Union, the chairman, Mr. O, R. Edgecombe, said that a tremendous ampunt of money was being spent in Englahd in advertising New Zealand meat, Mr, Nash had paid a great tributo to Mr, Forsyth'e, the board 's representative in Enghand, by saying that he was just about lOQ per cent, eilicient. He had also stressed the need qf keep-ing-iip the quality pf this country 's prbducts. The chairman of The board, Mr. T, Duucan, was pptiinistic, he said} gbqut the fnture/ He" thought w§ cpuld get morp beef into Englgnd thgn had lieea 4eae hither|q, but the dD> ficnlty was the sbortage qf shipping space. Howqver, it; was not altogether ad vi gable tp send large qpantities gt pna time, evpn if the space should Be available. For tfee sake pf tho quality, and tp iueet tho even spread pf ihe demauiij it was Better tp try to spread Ihe kiliings of cli Llled Beef iu future, thus preventing the necessity for storage iu Eygland diB'ibg the warm sea,son. Mr. Edgecombe went on tp say that he thought there would be an iuereaso in tho board 's levy pf about a halfpepny a liead, due to the extra exponse pf competing with Austrplia's big publicity drive, and of sendiug the dgle? gation to Britain. Some alarm had been expressed at tlie purchase by private interests of a co-operative tncat works in the South Island. Apparently the shareholders liad petitiqxied ihe GQvernmeut, whp had sauctioned the sale, despite the Meat Board 's objections. The board, ; liowever ,had asked the Government that the Idll in tliese works be limited, and the speaker understood that this request had been aceeded to.