Open AccessProducer Control in the New Zealand Meat Industry in the 1940s/1950s
Author(s) -
D.O. Hall
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of new zealand studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
0eISSN - 2324-3740
pISSN - 1176-306X
DOI - 10.26686/jnzs.v0i25.4103
Subject(s) - control (management) , meat packing industry , business , publishing , investment (military) , project commissioning , international trade , on board , agricultural economics , economics , management , law , engineering , political science , politics , aerospace engineering
The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Export Control Board, set up in the 1920s, implemented a policy of producer control of meat processing facilities to maximise producers’ income by restricting foreign investment in New Zealand. Meat Board members were not chosen directly by producers but indirectly through an electoral college system. Previous authors have suggested that that system isolated Board members from producer interests. This paper concludes that in the period after World War II the Board, led by an intransigent chairman, had indeed become detached from producers and its policy of producer control operated against producer interests.