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