DOMINION MEAT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 256, 29 October 1934, Page 8

DOMINION MEAT.

■■1... «►■ — FUTURE OF EXPORTS. ■ TEMPORARY RESTRICTIONS? " NOBODY KNOWS." "I cannot say what is going to happen —nobody knows," said Mr. W. H. i» Flint, of Christchurch, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company. Limited, who returned to-day by the Niagara, after a business visit to England, when asked what was the latest position in regard to the export of meat from New Zealand.

"Unofficially it is considered that the British Government is seriously contemplating a lew," he said, "and even n New Zealand'and Australia get preferential treatment in respect to the levy it seems to me that it will l>e so detrimental to the progress of New Zealand that it would be worth while doing anything within reason, even if it were only of a temporary nature, that would satisfy the British Government, if ">' so doing the risk of a levy could he avoided. "For instanee, it would bo hotter to agree to a restriction definitely understood to Iw imposed temporarily for, say, one or two years, the status quo to J« resumed immediately afterwards. At the end of such a period conditions might have improved to such an extent tna the continuation of any restriction might be unnecessary, and the question of the levy on Dominion meat would then he a thing of the past."