MEAT BOARD

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1931, Page 6

MEAT BOARD

STATEMENT, BY CHAIRMAN.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association)

WELLINGTON, August 27

The necessity for costs being kept at the lowest possible point was stressed by Mr D. Jones, Chairman of the Meat Board, reviewing the past season at the annual meeting of the Board to-day. It was imperative to ooncentrate on reducing costs, not only as applying to those on the farm but also the various costs in the intervening links from the farm until the product finally reached the point of consumption.

Having in view the steady increase on the output of lamb from New Zealand and other countries, the Board was using every endeavour to enlarge the chances of distribution, and was allotting freezing companies as much space as possible for shipment to the West of England ports and Glasgow. There could be no question that regularity and continuity of supplies were the most important factors in the attainment of success on the British market, and the authority exercised by the Board over- shipments in this way was probably the most valuable work the Board had undertaken.

Mr Jones stressed the necessity of keeping up and improving the quality of the product, in the face of world competition.

The Board was opposed to any lowering of the standard and had given definite instructions to supervising graders visiting the works, not to allow lambs below a limit of the present second class standard to be shipped. It must be recognised that these lambs, would go forward as the product of the Dominion and be sold as such thereby becoming a source of danger to the trade' as a whole.

Mr Jones said the Dominion was in the position to carry considerably more pigs and they should ooncentrate on the further developing of pork exports.