THE MEAT POOL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 April 1922, Page 5

THE MEAT POOL.

ARMOUR'S GRANTED LICENSE STRICT CONDITIONS TO BE IMPOSED. CHEAPER FREIGHTS AND LIGHTER CHARGES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Meat Producers’ Export Board has had under consideration a communication from Armour and Co., Australasia, Ltd., in which that firm requests permission to trade in New Zealand, also a further communication received ■through the Minister for Agriculture, in which the Armour Co. express their willingness, if allowed to trade, to place themselves in the hands of the board, and to do whatever the board desires in the matter of handling, pooling, shipping and marketing their meat. The matter was very fully discussed from all points of view, and the members of the board afterwards had an interview with the Minister for Agriculture, and submitted to him their considered opinion that, having regard to the powers of control now available to the board, and the expressed willingness of Armour and Co. to act entirely in accordance with the desires of the board, the company should now be allowed to commence trading under conditions to be laid down by the board.

As a result Armour and Co. will be given permission to commence business under the control of the board, the conditions to be imposed being of such a nature as to ensure effective and thorough control in the full interests of the producers.

The Meat Board further announced to-night that if the negotiations that the board have' now in hand are brought to. a satisfactory conclusion, it will mean that, provided sufficient quantities of beef are forthcoming, there will be a reduction in charges for freezing and freight of approximately 5s per

1001 b. It was stated also that the Prime Minister and acting-Minister for Railways had advised the board that to assist the beef producers at this crisis a reduction in railway rates on beef >ror export and live fat cattle sent to freezing works for slaughter for export would be made in the same proportion as the reduction which was secured from the shipping and freezing companies.