QUOTA RESTRICTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 242, 13 October 1933, Page 8

QUOTA RESTRICTION.

"STATE CASE TO BRITAIN." MR. POLSON'S SUGGESTION. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. The suggestion that New Zealand should state her position regarding the dairy produce quota to the people of Britain and rely on their common sense in the matter was niade in the House of Representatives to-day by Mr. W. J. Poison (Coalition, Stratford), who said ho did not believe quotas were inevitable or were the accepted policy of the United Kingdom. In Mr. Poison's opinion Mr. Thomas Baxter, the representative of British farmers, who visited New Zealand at the invitation of the Prime Minister, had begun to realise that the Dominion felt it was being unfairly treated concerning tlio quota proposal, which, once established, would cause a vicious spiral of higher prices and reduced consumption, and would hamper the development of industry. New Zealand would have to continue the development of dairying industries to a greater extent, and under no conditions should she agree to anything restricting that development.

Mr. Poison said he believed the Dominion would be prepared to make similar trade arrangements with Britain, as Denmark had made, granting the Old Country certain trade confessions iu return for itc> agreement to take New Zealand primary produce without restriction.