MEAT SITUATION
GOVERNMENT ATTITUDE. STATEMENT TO BE MADE THIS WEEK. (By Telegraph—Press Association.' CHRISTCHURCH, February 4. A statement on the frozen meat sit-
uation will be made before the end of this week by the Government. That was the only information which the Minister of Marketing, Mr. Barclay, was able to release when he was questioned today. The Minister was one of the Government’s representatives at a conference with the freezing companies at Wellington last Wednesday. Every phase of the financing necessary because of the holding back in New Zealand of meat supplies for Great Britain was discussed, but the Government's decision were withheld pending the return to Wellington of the Minister of Finance. Mr. Nash, who till recently conducted all negotiations with Britain.
Those negotiations are reported to be continuing.
Announcing that the Government's
attitude would be explained this week. Mr. Barclay added that the Government was still advising farmers to keep production to the maximum.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 February 1941, Page 3
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