MEAT FOE BRITAIN

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 44, 20 January 1938, Page 11

MEAT FOE BRITAIN

EXPORTS FROM DOMINION. READINESS TO MEET MARKET. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Jan. 19. “If the English market needs more New Zealand meat and can give an assurance of a. steady demand at the higher rate tlie New Zealand Government will undertake to meet their requirements.” This was plainly stated by the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) in an, interview this evening, when commenting on the allegations from England that New Zealand was not sending her quota of meat promised.

Mr Savage was shown a cablegram from London in which Mr C. A. Coggan, president of the National Federation of Meat Trades, said that, instead of sending tlie quota promised, “they (the New Zealand fa.rmers) refrained from killing sheep because found wool more valuable than meat. Mr Coggan suggested that the time had come for the Home Government to move for substantial increases in import quotas. “This is the first I have heard that such a position exists,” said the Prime Minister. “I do not know that we are on strike against killing meat. I think wo could undertake to increase our business with Great Britain if she is bursting to do that. We will undertake to make arrangements that Will bo worthwhile. If they want more meat from us, and if we have any guarantee of an increased market with a sustained demand, we will make provision accordingly. I think the Government could manage all right. We would want a guarantee of a sustained increase, because it would not do for us to he asked to meet a heavily-increased demand and then find the bottom drop out of the market suddenly.”