THE MEAT OUTLOOK.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 June 1920, Page 11

THE MEAT OUTLOOK.

IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT'S LOSS. t , lle Mercantile Gazette:— oi^n J i n % r Ws hy tlii3 time that the bad ti ozen meat is distinctly A intra lo - 6 raeat stores in Britain and S 8 " with meat, «- pecmUy nmtton and lamb, and many rannf l of tlle careases arc stale and rapialy becoming unsound. A tremendous losfi must be sustained by someone, and th.s New Zealand farmers want that "someone" to be the imperial Government, otherwise the f„ S1 tax pa>'ers, and it is difficult to see what moral right they have to make r™ su ® es *'j o n' Even if the Imperial' Government refuses to continue the requisition it will lose heavily on the purcl asw made, and to ask the Hntish taxpayer to shoulder the loss on another season's output is simply in,,lf the farmers rir<! prepared share the loss a way. may be found lor overcoming the rro-.w,., difflou'ltv. supposing the farmers deliberately offered th'e new season's ra -t of 'meat to the Imperial au., u .. ra - n t a reQUCtion of 2o per cent: riie commanneer pnees, that would be an inducement of a very powerful nature, for it would help the British food control to average on its holdings and minimise the loss. If the nations of Europe were not so poverty stricken ana financially helpless the British Government could no doubt quit a lot of meat by transferring it to Germany, Austria, Prance, ana Italy, but these countries would require extended credit, and there would be no certainty of payment. The best course for the farmers'to adopt is whin!,, g an tl making doleful predictions, and to make a definite of- ♦ ~ 11CW Beason 's meat at a substantially reduced price on the commandeer quotations.