SHIPMENT DELAYED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 129, 13 March 1935, Page 5

SHIPMENT DELAYED.

AUSTRALIAN MUTTON FOB LONDON. INCREASE W QUOTA SOUGHT,: /United Press Association—Copyright). SYDNEY, March 12. ' Nineteen thousand carcases of mutton and lamb, due for loading into three ships here to-day, have been held up owing to the sudden suspension by the Commonwealth Government of the licenses for export, pending the completion of negotiations with the British Government for the regulation of April-June shipments. The British Government had suggested that the April-June quota should not exceed the second quarter of last year, about 405,000 cwt, which has already been shipped The Commonwealth, however, expects to have 700,O00cwt of mutton and lamb available for export in the forthcoming quarter. The Acting-Prime Minister (Dr. Earle Page) explained to-day that the Commonwealth had asked the British Government to agree to a substantial, increase in the quota, and negotiations were now in progress. The Commonwealth Government, he added, felt it wouldl be wiser temporarily to suspend licenses for further shipments as the British Government, acting wrthui s its own rights, might impose definite limitations on the amount that would be allowed to land in England It. would be better to keep the meat in cold storage here than run the risk ot having it dumped overseas.

EFFECT ON SHIPPINGHEAVY LOSSES FORECASTED. MELBOURNE, March 12. The cancellation of shipping space for mutton and lamb, reported earlier from Sydney, will result in heavy losses to almost every oversea shipping company, as most of the vessels engaged in the export trade are sent to Australia either in ballast or only lightly laden. . . Shipowners also complain of the brier notification given of the suspension of export licenses.