MEAT SHIPMENTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 October 1939, Page 3

MEAT SHIPMENTS

APPEAL TO FARMERS. TO KEEP UP NORMAL FLOW. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. An appeal to farmers to do all they can to assist in maintaining the normal flow of meat shipments to the United Kingdom was rpade by the Minister of Marketing, Mr Nash, in a national radio broadcast from his office in Parliament Buildings, Wellington, last evening. Ample tonnage had been provided, he said, to deal with the early killing of lambs. Mr Nash said arrangements had been made for shipping to empty the freezing stores of all last season’s surplus meat before the new season’s operations commenced. The government and the Meat Board had given consideration to the problems involved to see if it would be possible to avoid a lot of the trouble experienced in the last war. The Government fully appreciated the serious position which would occur if farmers were unable to get their stock killed when it was ready, the Minister continued. Farmers could help the position if they would in every way possible continue the usual practice of delivering all their early lamb to the freezing works. In doing this, he said, farmers might avoid disappointment in getting their stock away later on. If the ships available were not filled the lamb would be in the store, and when the later ships came there would not be space io take it away.