FROZEN MEAT MUDDLE.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 May 1920, Page 9

FROZEN MEAT MUDDLE.

■j. . ~ : ~~K .:,• : r.VAST STORES IN DANGER! '•>' Under the above headiugs-tho Sunday Post, of Glasgow .recently, contained* a' most schatiojial article on the. food-glut at' Home, and the. demand,: for. .a reduction in price. The ,'aiiiele proceeds as follows: ' V Thfere is evidently another' first-class, muddle in "the mutton mystery' that] calls for explanation. Briefly tnVfacts': are as follow: Tlig ,w\i storage depots; of the Thames are a:rmiatT)urkting with' with ■ 'supplies -of'--New 'Zealand'' ahd ■ other meat. .'Much'of it is'going bad- i More cargoes of meat are held up in ' tua river, live million carcases are ready! for shipment from New Zealand, and. five millions more are te> be Teady -by-4 Oune—yet not only is the public made ! to pay.3s!/tfEll3&£ nWt&MhaYHHSQ \ OJd .in .1914, but:Mr, McOurdyi-tqW tfa<i food Committees, so.. recently as UW 1 comber-that a-meat shortage 'in ght oc T i cur, ; The' public is being ton : b'y restrictive" prices-jusV'wht'f i: jU oughi-to-have-plchry of'meat at 'lovrt-r', prices, i '•■■.' ■■■•.■■ '■••' '•'.■"■ ; vivThere-iS mutton everywhere;" 'The will? store sheds at' 1 .tile''London '(hicks' are-bursting-with it;" the' ships'waging to unload have thousands of fcarcascs to 1 | deliver,,, .The docks are -.storing- BOfSjQpty 'Jon? of general merchandise now;: as compared , with . 400,000 ..tons- in 19M. Twice,as much meat is,--being...landed fa is being consumed, and, grcfut; reserves ft-hkji "were piled up in. many! months),: .eveh'years ago,, remain Vf)Q klibw say that.unless,, the Covfirn v ment alters its policy . '.much' 0f.,; it', eventually will be condemned. ' ! '',',''' ';.'■■ l: r.y.t, 72TO 1 * ''POOD CONTKOLLER'S''JIIk!AtCU- '.','..'',';; _.. T/ATiONS...".'.'' "_".. . : Sir Thomas mfefeioher for New iealandj' ascribes,the' 'present 1 'deadlock, to; 'ine'in'siiffiraep.Y'cpld •stbrage accomrnodation"in" 'this country, iaHd; to the miscalculations of the .Food [.Controller in regard to- itidil supplies! utafit; .year- -; • .■ ■■'■■ <' : ' :,; ' IS an Interview.- with' a,'.tress ieptfi" rsenitive, Sir Thomas saids "It'seems ■ that the Food Controller came to the contusion that;-there was. likely a meat .shortage. I cannot, understand how! he arrived at iliat those, us who were familjar.with the i flocks and herds of other ,c,iiujntries kne-w. that immediately shipping became availi «tble' this country would, have, a,s 1 much meat as it could eat." ~ The High Commissioner for, !New r 'Zea-, land Asserts that miscalculations 0? the Food Control, and otir'absurdly insufficient cold storage, tbreateri 'to darnage seriously the 1 great trade 1 which' New" Zealand has been building up for'ihli-ty' years. , :•■ : ■.'■''' ' '-'■''''

ITnnaual interest i& l>einjgf taken at jSmithfield and other meat trade reritres ' m the speech to to delivered by Sir Auridand Gedde», President of the friard. of' Trade, at the complimentary banquet to Sir Thomas Robinson, director of M£at Supplies.., Tt is expected that Sir Atioklind Gedde-s -will make an offittjal, fetatemeftt concerninsr the Government's attitude toward* the frlnt of eolonia) mutton, and it is possible that he v/ill refer to the Government's recent purchase of Patagonian meat. '■''' , ■ "It is an open secret tfyat Jic GpYHriu -reducing the- price, thereby automaii«ilry sfmiriating .the constimptioii'' of one of raporierjj at Smithfield.