N.Z. MEAT EXPORTS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1930, Page 3

N.Z. MEAT EXPORTS

THE NEW AGREEMENT,

(By Telegraph- -Per Press Ass<v'.,ation.i

AUCKLAND, July 14

The Chairman, of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, Mr David Jones, M.P. for Mid-Canterbury, arrived at. Auckland on the Niagara, having returned from a visit to Great Britain on business connected with the operations of the Board. He left New Zealand on the Rangitane at the beginning of March. After spending two months in Britain negotiating a shipping freight contract and investigating the conditions of sale of Dominion meat, lie came home via Canada and the United States, spending a fortnight in the latter country. The existing freight contract would expire in October; and its renewal on the most favourable terms obtainable was the, principal object of bis trip, Jones said. The three shipping companies concerned were the Commonwealth and Dominion Line, and New Zealand Shipping Coy., and the Shaw Savill and Albion Coy. The expiring contract had been reduced ten per cent from the previous level, and in the Anal year there had been a further reduction of two per cent. A new contract, covering the next three years, had been made at a reduction of two and a half per cent from the rates now ruling. He said that the big drop in the volume of the imports to Australia and to New Zealand had made the question of freight reduction a thorny one to handle. The fact was that a considerable number of vessels were having to come out in ballast. This had. an important hearing on the .question of the freight on New Zealand exports.