EXPORT OF MEAT.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1921, Page 4

EXPORT OF MEAT.

CASE OF ARMOUR AND CO. A DIFFICULT POSITION. Bj» Telegraph —Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Acting-Prime Minister (Sir Francis Bell), asked whether the report of the Government Meat Commission is yet available for publication, stated that he was not sure that the report had yet been presented; at any rate he bad not seen it himself. In reply to a further question as to whether he could now make a statement in regard to the correspondence that had passed between himself and the United States Government and Armour and Co. with' regard, inter alia, to the refusal by the New Zealand Government of an export license to the American company, Sir Francis Bell said: “I am not in a position to say anything about it at the moment. The position is a very difficult one. At present I may say, however, that while 1 was in the South Island over the weekend I met Mr. Carney, manager of Ar* rnour and Co. at Christchurch, and discussed the position with him. but I cannot make any statement as to what| took place.”