MEAT EXPORTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1941, Page 5

MEAT EXPORTS

PROPOSALS BY FARMERS’ UNION PROBLEM OF DISTRIBUTING LOSSES. WHILE AVOIDING INFLATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 30. Requesting the Government, “as a matter of extreme urgency,” to decide and make known its policy for the disposal of meat in the coming season and suggesting steps to be taken, resolutions adopted at a special meeting of the Dominion executive of the Farmers' Union last week were read to the North Canterbury executive of the union today by Mr G. C. Warren, who attended the special meeting as delegate. “We have the honour of broadcasting to New Zealand the recommendations arrived by the Farmers' Union,” said Mr Warren. “Classifying meat taken by the Government into ‘exportable,’ 'eventually exportable’ and ‘unexportable,’ the Dominion executive proposes that exportable meat—meat exportable within the export year —should 'finance itself as at present.’ The purchase of eventually exportable meat should be financed by short-term loans raised by the Government ‘from the genuine savings of the people’ and the purchase of unsaleable meat should be financed from the Consolidated Fund. •'These proposals will fairly distribute the loss over the whole community, will avoid any inflationary effect upon our currency through payment for that portion of meat which is not immediately exportable, and will avoid further stimulation of the demand for goods which.are not available for consumption.” said the executive's report. Other proposals under the head of •‘finance” were: (1) That though the past season's prices had not in all cases covered all production costs, they should be taken as a basis in view of the war situation on the understanding that the Government took effective action to prevent further increases in costs; (2) The Government should continue to purchase all meat offered for killing for export and prices paid for those classes which were exportable should be on the basis of prices paid by the British Government at present. For classes not exportable the basis should be the present prices .to farmers and in both cases actual distribution of prices over various grades should be further considered.