THE MEAT CRISIS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3410, 14 February 1920, Page 7

THE MEAT CRISIS.

PI{EFER.ICI\'C TO AMERICA‘

'l'Rl_7S'l‘ PULLS THE STRINGS 4.

b‘CAL\'D.*XLO US STATE OF

AFFAIRS.

LONDON, Feb. 104

Owners of steamers carrying Australian meat have protested to the Board of Trade against priority being given to steamers from River Plate discharging at London and Liverpool. The average time for discharging an Australian steamer is now six weeks, whereas Plate boats are discharging in ten ‘days.] There liave been several recent instances where Plate boats commenced discharging directly they arrived, while Australian boats waited

two months for berths. It is understood the Plate steamers 11a\'c'proforernce because their meat. is pl'iv*ltel_\' owned, and the owners are willing to pay much. higher prices for storugxo than the Board of Trade will pay for Government-owned meat. There is irritation against the I*e"rontion of control, which is maintaining high prices of meat, while enormous quantities are choking stores and delayin-g‘ steamers at. high oxpense_ I

THE ZEALANDIC HELD UP.

LONDON, Feb. 10%

Delayed foodships include the Zealandic, which arrived from New Zealand on Decemb-el',7tll, a": 1 was docked on January 3rd, but has -out yet commenced to unload her meat. SPiI:IECIn{ BY MR ll’Ol.S()N. CHR_ISTCH_U‘iCH, Feb. 12. Mr W. J. Polson_, of Fordell, addressed a. meeting of the Farmers‘ Union to-day on the meat question on lines of his speeches in the North Island. Mr David Jones, M.P., who presided, said he wislied he could he as hopeful as Mr Poulson -that ‘we would get our meat away from the Dominion this season. He was afraid this would not prove to ...__.__.._..__ ~._.___.____.___,_,_.__.________

bv 1110 case. Referring to his own attitude. Ml‘ Poison said it xvafli not his int-ention to proceed To England with the Commission already set up, although. he had been appointed to ‘it.