EMPIRE TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 150, 27 June 1934, Page 7

EMPIRE TRADE.

LONDON PARLEY.

Meeting at Dominions Office To-day.

MEAT RESTRICTIONS ISSUE.

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

(Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 26. The Dominion High Commissioners "will meet Mr. J. 11. Thomas, Dominions Secretary, and Mr. Walter Elliot, Minister of Agriculture, at the Dominions Office on Wednesday, to break the ground in the Empire trade problems. A solution of the meat problem after the expiry of the existing agreements on Saturday is no nearer achievement. This informal conference with Mr. S. M. Bruce and Sir James Parr is a step by the British Government toward finding a way to safeguard the interests of home beef producers, and to check the fall in prices in the cattle trade. The agreement with Argentina provides for xp further reduction of supplies unless the Dominions similarly reduce their exports. The Government is free, after the expiry of the Ottaca agreements, to restrict supplies from the Dominions but hopes that a voluntary arrangement will be reached. It is believed Britain has already approached Argentina. Meanwhile the council of the Central Chamber of Agriculture demands a subsidy of £8,500,000, the equivalent of Id per lb until the expiry of the Argentine agreements enables this to be produced by a levy on imports.