GERMAN MEAT FAMINE.
GOVERNMENT'S HALF MEASURES, rum.lf DISAPPOINTMENT. The promised scheme of the Prussian Government for (lie relief of the distress caused by the high price of moat, is disappointing to those who were optimistic enough to expect tho admission of frozen moat.
The new regulations enact that fresh heef may bo imported from Russia, and fresh beef and pork from Servia, Houmaniu, and Bulgaria, to Penpaii towns which arc tho markets for large districts, provided that the flesh so imported ho sold to consumer at the lowest possible prices. Fresh pork from Russia may also be imported to certain towns in East Germany, where it is believed that the necessity for this step exists.
Cuttle tor slaughter may ho imported from the Netherlands to the large towns that arc supplied with public slaughterhouses of a suitable character, and under the sanitary regulations which exist at present for the import of swine from AustriaHungary. The prohibition of fiosh heef from Belgium is to lie abolished, and in Upper- Silesia Russian swine may be imported into manufacturing districts in case of necessity. FROZEN MEAT. Finally, (I Hill will be promoted in (lie Reichstag, entitling local authorities who import foreign meat and sell it directly to the consumer to a large rebate ou the existing Customs duties. It is intended that tho law, when passed, shall remain in force until 31st March, 1914, and take effect as from Ist October of the present year. Tho local authorities are advised to presume that the Bill will become law and to open accounts with the Customs authorities on the assumption that they will not have to pay them. It is stated that this measure will enable local authorities to import, frozen mutton as well as fresh meat, because fiW. erl mutton can be imported without an infringement, of the law regarding the inspection of meat and the reduction of Customs duties will‘make importation proThe main proposal which the Government, has rejected is tho importation of frozen beef. It has been decided that on grounds ot public health that provisions which practically exclude frozen beef cannot be sueP Tt d may bo explained dial the Government still insist on frozen carcases containing ihe internal organs so as to make the detection of disease more easy, but they have made two or three slight changes in the methods of inspection and a slight reduction of the import diitv. THE EFFECT. The effect of the scheme will not ho great, and the people will have to agitato stih further if they wisli to improve the siluaExperts in tho best position to estimate the effect of the new regulations do not expect anv great change. There is no attempt to abolish the existing drastic frontier regulations, arid so long as the free importation of frozen moaf from the Argentine Republic and Australasia Is hampered by severe meat inspection laws and the import duty is not wholly removed, all the patchwork measures in the world will not wholly remove the distress. The London Times says: “The proposals •ire expressly described as temporary measures, and will, not fully .salisly Ihe wishes of the municipal and oilier local aiithorilie*. They constitute, a fairly hold encroachment upon Agrarian privileges- and this fact will probably cover up their imperfections if there is any considerable full in prices. It is held that R is still possible for the German market to be supplied exclusively with Gorman meat and that ail measures mpsf be avoided that would imperil tin's requirement ol German nirricultui e and of Gorman ‘ economic ream„«s for war.” The only permanent security for the German meat, supply is said to couof the Government m their first atsist. in the maintenance unci expansion of German cattle-growing.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1062, 11 February 1913, Page 4
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623GERMAN MEAT FAMINE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1062, 11 February 1913, Page 4
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