CHEAPER MEAT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 234, 24 May 1932, Page 8

CHEAPER MEAT

FARMERS' SCHEME TO ASSIST FAMILIES OF WORKLESS. A scheme for the supply of cheaper meat for the unemployed was outlined at the Farmers' Union meeting last week by Mr. W. J. Polson, M.P., president, who said that the object was to provide cheaper ni'eat for the relief committees for distribution in the larger towns. The intention, Mr. Polson said, was to have a drive in the various districts round the cities and larger towns for the purpose of collecting good quality cow beef when required by the relief committees. Branches of the union should compile a census of the number of head of good cow beef, to be collected to meet the demands of the relief committees. Unsuitable animals should be rejected. All cows collected would be examined by officers of the Department of Agriculture, who would be responsible for seeing that only good quality beef was killed. The cows would be killed at the city abattoirs or at a freezing works, the staffs of the abattoirs to be assisted where possible. Local butehers should be asked to carve the carcases into suitable joints. The price to be paid to the farmers would be fixed at a sum per 1001b weight. Relief committees would arrange for delivery or distribution on fixed days. Upon the production of an order from the relief committee a certain Weight of meat would be handed over, but no meat would be supplied without an order. Mr. Polson said that by the delivery of the cows at the abattoir the costs of collection would be saved. Unemployed butehers could give assistance at the abattoirs, and the cost to the relief committees would only be the actual cost. The scheme was the farmers' way of showing their sympathy with the unemployed, for it would assist the unemployed and give the farmers some return for their meat. In a brief discussion which followed, it was urged that the supplies should be regulated so that only the required number of animals were slaughtered each week, it being eonsidered that fresh killed meat would