"TOO MUCH MEAT."

Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1920, Page 9

"TOO MUCH MEAT."

PEOPLE ASKED TO EAT MORE. Under the above heading, in its issue of December 4 last, the Daily Mail had the following:— "The meat position of the country was outlined by the Food Ministry yesterday in a statement to the Daily Mail. There can be no question about the present glut. .' Meat in cold storage at the end of Xoxvemher totalled approximately 125.000 tons. Another 20.000 tons is now being unloaded, and a further 20,000 tons remains in ships. More is on the way in ships carrying from 700 to 3000 tons each, "The consumption of meat is going up. During the war it drppped as low as 25.(]0(1 tons per month. Ttf-dav it is between 35,000 and 40,000 tons. The Food Ministry are in hopes that it will rise to SO.OfiO tons in the Now Year. "Practical suggestions were made yeslerday by a director of Messrs. Gilbert Anderson and Co., Holborn Viaduct, who are large importers of New Zealand meat. 110 said: 'To relieve the congestion the Government must act as private traders do and create a demand by lowering prices. Registration must go. The purchaser must be free to buy at any shop, and the .butchers' permit to buy must also be abolished, If the Government does not clear out its stocks- It will bo impossible for the trade to resume its normal .course next June, because there will be still 3,000,000 carcases waiting to be lifted in New Zealand. "A complete stoppage of tin Grimsby fish trade is threatened owing to the opposition aroused by the reintroduction of control,"