GONE FOR GOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 December 1922, Page 7

GONE FOR GOOD.

BEEF MARKET. AUSTRALIA HAMSTRUNG. “We are having a hard fight to hold the English meat market at present. I believe that we will never get the beef market back again, because we cannot compete against the Argentine.” This statement was made by Mr. Cramsie, deputy chairman of the Meat Board to members of the Millions Club at Sydney recently. | The board, he said, claimed that if (could handle its meat in a cleaner way, but after it left the Homebush Bay abattoirs the board had no control over it. The board did not have the shipping facilities. Fifty per cent, of the meat was carted through the streets of Sydney exposed to dust. On the wharf it had no protection, and the industry could not hold its position aginst South America in the British market under those conditions.

Australia was not meeting South America on level conditions. Shanks were broken as they were dumped into the holds of vessels, and careases were left on the wharves in varying temperatures. RAILWAYS TO WHARVES. To obviate this Mr. Cramsie asked for railways to the wharves, and better accommodation and mechanical handling. “We have to have the best conveniences on this side that it is possible to get,” he said. “In five years the export trade is going to be lost unless we do something. “If we cannot open up the market to the East we only want a population of 3,000,000 people more here and then we will not have to export a pound of beef.”