THE MEAT CRISIS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3407, 11 February 1920, Page 6

THE MEAT CRISIS.

MEAT SHIPS IN THE THAl\Vll,£’.§‘.

UNPRECEDENTED CONGESI(,)N

LONDON, Feb. 5%

hc congestion of meat‘ ships in the Thames is 11I1p1‘OCC'(lCI1i(‘d‘. (‘old sitarage, which acComnlodzl’reS 1,<$00.0()0 carcases, is now eraninled \v'ltli an additional 50,000. Eleven ships, caex'rying 1,130,000 earcases of mutton, aer lying in the (locks compelled to gisVeliarge gradiially in accordance with deliveries from store. _

The Port Hacking, with 3000 tons of New Zealand nlo'a.r, zlrrived on Decmnbor 13th. and has just Connnonce<l to discharge. Twelve s'foanlol's an» u\\'as?ing‘ berths at other ports, and nine are 07.“ the

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N.Z. SHIPPERS FACE DWJTH ' SERIOUS I>Rol*oSl'_J‘.lON.

I«‘I;ILDJ;\'G, Feb. 97

I In connet-tion with the meat comnrtfndeer quc.<tion, tire Feilding Farmers Freezing Company, has received the following letter from Mr I Gordon Wolfe, of Christchureliz “We have received a cable from London to the effect. {that they fear New Zealand shippers will have to face -.1 serious proposition after the end of the present term of purchase by the Imperial GO-v~ ernment of meat unless drastic action is taken to clear the presen’t glut.ot' imported meat in England and life the Go\'ernment»owned stocks in the Dominion. Stores at Home are full. Discharges are being delayed. Arrivals

are 50 per cent over consumption. Our ‘people ask: Can the Dominion Government bring pressure upon the Jmperial GoVel'nnlen’r Jto lower the price to a level which will stimulate eonsuinption and so tend to I;elieVe the glut. The pl'ob'ability of a situation such as now exists was forseen by those well‘ :10.qnainted with the nleat3?:'aoe at Home some months ago. but‘ appe.i'enlly their efl'Ol‘ts to _inflnene(' the Tln}'ml'inl GOV-vi-nment VV“§l‘(‘ nn;<ucce:<sfv.ll. They are now pointing out in .\’e\\' Zenland

‘shippers that the apprehension. cxpres~

sod some time ago is being realised and exporters of meat from the Dominion should take coneerted'actionV, through their Grmrermnent, to ‘bring abouit such procedure at Home as will do whatever is possible to protect their legitimateinterests in respect to the future when ‘the Imperial Grovernmenit: ceases to take over meat at the works.”

The Feilding Compa.n_v also received a. letter from Home agents stating What the only remedy is to put stored meat on the markelt. and -get rid of it at selling prices, though it may o:m‘so a glut.