DROUGHT IN ENGLAND
CATTLE MARKET AFFECTED FOOD MINISTRY'S ACTION LONDON, Sept.. 21. (Received Sept. 22, at 9 p.m.) Widespread drought and consequent shortage of grass has caused many farmers to offer large numbers of stock for sale earlier in the season than is usual. The numbers entered at the Food Ministry's collecting centres are more than can be dealt with and. if accepted by the Ministry, the excess animals would have been held in paddocks attached to the slaughter houses. Such a course would involve a considerable wastage of good meat. In these circumstances, the Minister.of Food has found it necessary to impose a temporary limitation on the numbers of beasts accepted for slaughtering. It is possible that the limitation mav continue for some weeks, but it will be removed at the earliest possible moment. The difficulties which the farmers will experience as the result of this decision will largely be resolved by the maintenance of the price and the postponement of the next three season decreases.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24410, 23 September 1940, Page 6
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167DROUGHT IN ENGLAND Otago Daily Times, Issue 24410, 23 September 1940, Page 6
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