MEAT POOL LEVY.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 March 1922, Page 4

MEAT POOL LEVY.

WHO MUST BEAR ITT By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. Speaking at a meeting of the Canterbury A. and P. Association, Sir Francis Boys complained that the freezing companies had never been consulted as to the manner in which the meat pool levy was to be collected. It was little. wonder that the scheme was unbusinesslike. It was simply gazetted that the charges were to be made, but no mention was made as to how the money "was to be collected. If the intentions of the Government were borne out, then some means must be found to pass on the levy to the producers. The luxury of the meat pool was for the benefit of the producers. He wished them luck, and he could assure them the freezing companies need not bear the cost of the levy, and what was more, would not bear it. Those on whose account the meat was shipped would have to pay the charge of Id. on each carcase. DUNEDIN AGENTS’ ACTION. Dunedin, Last Night. A meeting of Dunedin stock agents was held to-day to consider the meat exporters’ claims to deduct the Control Board’s levy of a penny per head on sheep and lambs, bought either privately or at auction. It was decided to resist this method of collection, on the grounds that the Government regulations clearly stated that the amounts -are payable* on export, and the discussion raised many other reasons against the method proposed. The Dunedin auctioneers consider, therefore, that the proper procedure to cover the charge is for the freezing companies to make an addition to their charges, under which buyers would automatically provide for it in their operations.