New Zealand

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 240, 19 March 1915, Page 5

New Zealand

MEAT SUPPLIES. PRODUCERS PROTEST AGAINST GOVERNMENT'S ACTION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Palmerston North, Last Night. At a representative meeting of farmers held here to-day for the purpose of discussing th (! mutter of the arrangements matfe hy the Government for the acquisition o£ meat supplies, the following resolutions were carried unanimously:— ''That this meeting of beef producers of tlie Manawatu, Rangitikei, and Hol'owhenua districts, while agreeable to tlie prices arranged for meat, emphatically protests against t'ho arrangements made by the Government with the freezing companies for the purchase of meat, for army supplies, inasmuch as the arrangements were made without consulting the producers, anil 011 account of the difficulty of securing freezing space to sell f.o.b. to tli« Government tlie freezing companies have practically a monopoly) of the 'buying at their own prices." '"That in the opinion of this meeting it is considered advisable that tlie Covnrament control the freezing works in orner that producers may not be so exploited by such companies refusing to freeze on owners' accounts."