TRADE POLICY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 290, 8 December 1933, Page 7

TRADE POLICY.

FARM PRODUCTS.

AGAINST DOMINIONS.

Press Outcry at Home Over

Restrictions,

FOREIGNERS .FAVOURED. (United P. A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received It a.m.) LONDON, December 7. The "Evening Standard," editorially condemning the Government's propaganda against Dominion meat exports, says that the "New Deal" iii June, 1934, of which the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. W. E. Elliot, speaks, will be disadvantageous to the Dominions. Criticising the trade treaties with Argentina and Denmark, the paper says: "Despite the fact that Denmark is still sending us more butter than any country in the world, public attention is sedulously being directed to the 'threat' to the British dairymen from the Dominions."

Reviewing the purchases by Australia and New Zealand, frbin Britain, which are greater than those by Denmark, despite the discrepancy in population, the article says: "Mr. Elliot ignores these facts when attacking the Dominion exporters, who, with the British producer, must pay for the folly of foreign trade agreements."

The "Manchester Guardian" says that, in the Minister's present mood, the agitation to reduce dairy imports will doubtless be successful. The Dominions will be persuaded to agree. Nevertheless, there is something wrong with local manufacturers if they are unable to produce butter and cheese oil competitive levels with Australia, New Zealand and Denmark. Australia and New Zealand especially have heavy transport costs, and there is no sweated labour there.

The "Daily Telegraph" political correspondent. learns that Cabinet will review the agricultural position and the effects of the Ottawa agreements. Regarding imports of live stock it is contended that restrictive measures have failed to achieve the end desired, and in regard to milk products from the Dominions, especially in New Zealand and Australia, it is taking its stand on the Ottawa agreements.