MEAT AND WOOL

Shannon News, 30 December 1924, Page 4

MEAT AND WOOL

MANAWATU LAMBS BEST AT SMITHFIEDD.

At a meeting of the South Canterbury A. and P. Association, at Timaru, Mr B. H. Tripp, when speaking on tlie meat question, stated that the Meat Producers’ Board was doing good work. Pie had been through the Smithfleld market, and was struck with the falling off .in Canterbury lamb. It was not as good as it used to be, and was certainly not up to the '.North Island meat. Some of the best lambs he saw there were from the Longburn works, Palmerston North. Ho thought, further, that boards should be established to deal with all classes of produce. There could be boards at both ends, which would regulate supplies, but not to do the selling. Wool, too, should be similarly controlled. The B.A.W.R.A. was at an end, and there was now no controlling authority. Wool was now selling extremely well, and people said “What is the use of it?” That was all very well,- but what if a slump came. He had come to the conclusion that if boards had been operating during the past thirty years the Dominion would have been better off. They were only now coming into their own. .Mr Tripp went on to say that he had attended the Bradford Wool Conference, and was shown the Romney clip with hair on it. Girls had pulled hair out of the cloth with tweezers, and he had been informed that the New Zealand clip had deteriorated.