Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

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Identifikator:: 1800540760

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-185131

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: vi, 65 Seiten; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VI. Combinations in the meat industry

Collection:: Economics Books

The organisation of the Meat Council is two-fold.” Each State will have its elected State Meat Advisory Board on which will be represented cattle-owners, sheep-owners and meat- works owners, while the State and Commonwealth Governments will each appoint an executive officer to the Board. Each State Board will advise the State Government on matters relating to the meat industry and will act as agent of the Australian Meat Council. Each Board will elect one or more representatives of the various interests concerned to form the Meat Council. Each Board will be authorised to collect from the stock owners In its own State a levy not exceeding one penny per head of cattle and one sixth of a penny per head of sheep. The levy so made ill be used to cover the expenses of both the State Boards and the Meat Council. The objects of the Council are to study the industry in all its respects, to improve grading and breeding, to look for foreign markets and generally to supervise the marketing of Australian meats abroad. The Council is represented in London and will probably be represented later in South America and the East. Unlike the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, it is a purely advisory body and has no executive power. Control of ship- ments, shipping space and overseas marketing are outside its scope. The Council has already secured better shipping facilities and a reduction in railway rates on cattle, but there are many matters awaiting early consideration. The grading from some Australian works is not completely satisfactory and this inevitably reacts on the Australian industry as a whole. Shipping can probably be speeded up and the processing of meat and by- products more efficiently performed. There is, too, a vast field of research; among the problems awaiting solution is the discovery of a method by which chilled meat can be conveyed to England without loss of condition; other problems are the mitigation of droughts, the opening up of new areas for meat production, and the more even spread of supplies over the twelve months of the year. The task before the Council is not an easy sne, but the improved outlook which wool, and more recently meat, have given to the pastoral industry, should encourage efforts to increase production and to enhance the quality of the sroducts marketed. (ii) Merging of interests in Processing and Distribution.—This Report would not be complete without a brief reference to the srowth, during the past few years, of companies of great influence nd strength in the imported meat trade, having regard to the »ontrol which such organisations are in a position to exercise. Control may be exercised at any or all of the following taoces ‘— (1) supplies at the source; 2) the freezing works ; 5) wholesale merchanting '4) retail distribution

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