MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1923, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. .MEAT RETAILERS. LONDON, An", 21. A departmental committee on the disIriluition and prices of agricultural produce, of which Lord Linlithgow is chairman, states in an interim report that the meat retailors' nett profit has definitely increased compared with their pre-war profits. Their net cash earnings are not only higher, hut there is relative improvement in their financial position which has resulted from the control. Their prices have been largely, if not entirely, maintained since the control period. Referring to the imported meat, the report says the position of the Horne producer is increasingly prejudiced as the result of the improved organisation for the marketing and distribution of imported meat supplies, and the policy of the South African and Australian (iovernments in subsidising exports to this country. It, therefore, is ossmitial that every effort should be made to improve the system of marketing and the distribution of liritish meat, and to reduce costs.

THE DRV LAW. COPEN II AC KN, Aug. 21. Kx-Senator Volstead, of U.S.A., lectured before the Anti-Alcohol Conference. lie said that prohibition in the I niled Slates bad resulted in a decrease of crime, and caused the closing of 20 prisons, and saved the nation from four to five milliard dollars. A Spanish delegate, Professor Warming. said the consumption of alcohol in the I’nited States now amounted at hast to fit) nor cent ol the consumption prior to prohibition. The American delegates questioiwd this statement which, however, the Dutch delegates supported.