BEEF IN DEMAND

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 71, 26 April 1929, Page 7

BEEF IN DEMAND

Per Press Association.

A CHANCE FOR DO-MINION. AMERICAN St'PPLIES FAILING.

WELLINGTON. This day. The Minister of Agriculture a fow days ago reeeived a eahlegram from tlic High Coininissioner intimating that tlie Londoii Times had published a Kories of remarkable articles hy Sir M illiam Haldane, regarding a seiious shortage in heef production. In a leading nrtiele, the Times stiongly .supported Sir "Williain lfaldane's views and suggested that it was an opportunitv for tlic Dominion and that exports would lio greatly iuereased. The High Comniissioner further stated that the article 111 question jioints out, firstly, that tlic shrinkage of the exports from tho Argentine is continuous, the fignres for 1928 ehowing a reduction of 24 per cont. over those for 1027 ; seeondly, that owing to the shortage in nuniber of cattle and the growth of the population of tho United States, a considerahle amonnt of beef is being ini]iorted into that country from Canada and even New Zealand, despite the tariff harrier, and the opinion is expressed that the United States will he compelled to widen the field from which imports are taken. This being so, it is considered that there should be a hig opportunitv to other beef-produeing countries to increasO their production for export to Great Brifcain, whieh imports 58 per cent. of its supplies.