IMPORTED MEAT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 9 May 1925, Page 5

IMPORTED MEAT

STATISTICS SHOULD BE SUPPLIED LONDON', May 8. The Food Commission recommends tliat the cold storage proprietors should be required to furnish statistics in connection with the stocks of meat held. The Food Council should closely watch the developments in the importation ot meat from Argentine since it. may be necessary for the Government to intervene bv acquiring a. controlling interest, in British companies operating in the Argentina or some, other way, if the supply of chilled and frozen meat should be dominated by adverse trading combinations. The" Commission does not recommend State trading in wheat or meat. FOOD COUNCIL RECOMMENDED' LONDON, May 0. The Food Commission majority report recommends the establishment of a permanent food council to maintain continuing supervision, over the staple food trade." "We have in view the. formation of a body combining the representation of the. economic, financial, administrative. and consuming interest to act- as mediator between the producer, trader, and consumer, reconciling for the common end interests which we do not regard as necessarily coniiicting.” The Commission expresses the opinion that the Government may find it desirable to discuss with the dominions the possibility ot eiicouiaging a flow of food from the. dominions to the home markets. COUNCIL OBJECTED TO LONDON, May 8. Mr Evland's minority report objects to the. establishment of a food council, as a, definite advance in the direction ot State socialism, imposing a- heavy burden on the taxpayer and entailing sennas, risk of increasing the cost ot the people's, food. Mr Smith’s minority report recommends the Government to assume open responsibility for supplies and prices ot food, of imported wheat and Horn m the. hands of a Statutory Import hoard, acting on behalf of the wig>\e community and similar centralisation ol meat-, c,-owing out the recommendations ot the l’.ridgenian and M. A. Crosby Committees. In regard to the public acquisition of freezing works in South America bv Britain, the milling industry should be formed into a statutory corporation, wherein the present mill-owners hod debentures and the Government hol - ing the majority of ordinary snares, n - cal authorities should be enpoveicd to open municipal bread and nieat smj and require the licensing of icl.iileis m their areas.