EXPORT OF MEAT.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1922, Page 5

EXPORT OF MEAT.

OPERATION OF THE POOL. DEMAND FOR COMPULSION. DECISION OF FARMERS’ UNION. By Tfjegrzph .•-Press Association. Wellington, Sept. 12. Marketing and shipping schemes for farmers in connection with the compulsory meat pool were discussed at the quarterly meeting of the executive of the Dominion Farmers’ Union to-day. Mr. G. Anderson (Marlborough) urged strongly the case for compulsion. They wanted to help the farmer, with his store stock, and unless tjie Government gave the requisite assurance that the Meat Control Board would be compulsory the meat pool would foe as dead as Julius Caesar. The farmer should have the. measure of control previously enjoyed by the trusts. Mr. Anderson urged setting up a board for marketing wool at a minimum price for different grades. They wanted at least 50 ships for the trade between New Zealand and Britain. Mr. Atwood, president of the Fruitgrowers’ Association, said the compulsory marketing of fruit principle was endorsed in America. The co-operation of all producers was necessary to ensure success. Mr. A. E. Harding said the pool would bring about compulsory control as soon as possible. Mr. Hugh Morrison said proper marketing conditions must be made in Britain before compulsion could foe adopted. Mr. W. J. Polson advocated more speed bn the part of the board in the matter. The compulsion motion was defeated on a show of hands by B.to 7. Wellington, Last Night. At the meeting of the Farmers’ Union executive, Mr. Marshall sought to move that the executive reaffirm the motion carried at the Dominion conference in favour of the introduction of a compulsory pool as soon as possible, but consent was refused, as it had to be given unanimously. Mr. Anderson raised opposition. “Gentlemen, you have done something to-day that you will regret as long as you live,” remarked Mr. Joll, who appealed to the delegates not to undo the hard work that had been done in a long period of years in favour of the pool. They would make of themselves laughing stocks if they allowed it to be thought they were opposed to compulsion. Mr. G. W, Leadley (Ashburton) agreed with the pool. What the executive had done was playing right iiito the hands of those who had been fattening, and fattening themselves, on the backs of the farmer. By request Mr. Anderson withdrew his opposition, and the following motion moved by Mr. Marshall was carried unanimously: “That this executive reaffirms the resolution adopted at the producers’ conference that the pool be made compulsory as soon as possible, and that the president communicate this to the Control Board?’ Mr. Anderson said he wanted to make it clear that Mr. D. Jones, M.P., chairman of the Meat Control Board, was against compulsion, desiring to use the Act as a big stick.