N.Z. FROZEN MEAT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3548, 9 August 1920, Page 5

N.Z. FROZEN MEAT.

‘LONDON, Aug. “e.

V In the House of Commons ,Mr Rathcliffe asked why large supplies -of-«last -.sea:son’s New Zealand lambs were di\'érted_tb America where thé high-° est price atthe Atlantic: séaboard was between‘ 16% and 183; cents per )1), while retail distributors in Great Britain charged 1/3 per lb for old stocks of cut lamb.

Mr Mitchell Thomson replied that some mutton and lamb had been stim for direct shipment from New Zealand to America with a View to relieving the‘congestion in stores‘_ in New Zealand, saving voyage charges and hastening the time when New Zealand exporters would be enabled to revert to business or ordinary lines. The Ministry had sold at a price f.o.‘b_ New Zealand, which gives the Imperial Government profit thereOn.