WORK PRAISED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 184, 7 August 1933, Page 7

WORK PRAISED.

DIFFICULT TASK.

N.Z. DELEGATION.

"Admirable Judgment .and

Temper."

QUOTA SO FAR AVOIDED

(Special to N.Z. I'rcss Association.)

LONDON, August 0.

Commenting on (he departure of the New Zealand delegation to the Economic Conference on their homeward journey the "Morning Post" says: "Messrs. Forbes and Masters leave nothing but the kindliest memories and, it is a satisfaction to know, take away as good as they leave. It is the more satisfactory because the results of the conference, on which New Zealand had set high hopes, must have proved a disappointment.

"What New Zealand hoped for was a practical agreement for raising prices. What she met has been an insistent demand for a restriction of her output and export of primary products.

"Messrs. Forbes and Masters had a very difficult part to play, but they played it with admirable judgment and temper. The earnestness and conviction with which they urged their own case has not prevented their full understanding of other considerations with which the Government here had to reckon.

"It should bo a consolation to the New Zealand Ministers to know that at least no quota arrangement in respect to dairy produce has been actually reached. It should not pass the wit of man to devise a scheme under which tho welfare of the farmer at home should not connote ruin for the farmer in New Zealand.

"Tho reconciliation of these conflicting interests should be the instant task of statesmanship."

The "Financial Times" makes reference to Mr. Forbes' departure and his farewell message. It says: "This message clearly indicates that for the British Empire at least the labours of tho various delegates have not been fruitless conversations. In the intervals formal discussions have served to bind the Empire more closely together.

"This is of particular importance when so many disruptive influences are at work in other directions, t and Mr. Forbes contributed his full share to its creation. On jio point were Messrs. Forbes and Masters more insistent, within and without tho conference, than upon New Zealand's essential need for the widest possible markets.

"Tho policy to which the Prime Minister gave his adhesion is calculated to facilitate a renewed expansion of the purchasing power of the Dominion."

BIG DROP SHOWN.

BRITAIN'S MEAT IMPORTS.

("Times" Cables.)

LONDON, August 0,

The agricultural editor of "The Times" draws attention to the Ministry of Agriculture's statement that chilled betf imported for the first six months of 1933 amounted to 4,244,000cwt, as compared with 4,485,000cwt for the corresponding period last year, before the Ottawa arrangement. Frozen beef importations totalled 1,241,000, as compared with 945,000; mutton and lamb totalled 3,859,000, as compared with 3,885,000; bacon and hams were 5,174,000, as compared with 0,144,000.

"The Times" adds that while chilled beef hitherto has been reduced 0 per cent, imports for the first half of the present quarter will be 10 per cent lower than last year and 12J per cent lower during tlio "second half. Foreign frozen beef, mutton and lamb will be reduced 20 per cent for the present quarter, with a further reduction in bacon and hams.

Tho Dominions' position cannot be stated, but the necessity of implementing Ottawa, considered with the estimated production, points to a substantial reduction. The Ministry estimates that the total imports will be 18 per cent lower for the present quarter than for 1932.