DOMINIONS RESENT MEAT CONTROL PLAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 28, 3 February 1939, Page 7

DOMINIONS RESENT MEAT CONTROL PLAN.

COUNCIL DIVIDED British Farmers on Verge . Of Rioting. NO RIGHT OF RESTRICTION y United Press Association.— Copyright. ' (Received 1.30 p.m.) > LOXDON, February 2. The Associated Press says that the. United Kingdom's hopes thai the. meeting of the Empire Meat Council on January 31 would result in ail agreement by Australia and Zealand to restrict mutton and lamb, exports were not realised.

The Australian and New Zeaftuid delegates to the- Meat Council docEne to discuss the position. It is understood that Lord Bingley, the Home farmers' representative on the council, informed them 'that United ■ Kingdom fai/min"was perilously situated and tlwft the farmers were on the verge of riciKin"-.

The National Farmers' Union was obliged to demand the Government imposition or compulsory restrictions unless the Dominions accepted voluntary restrictions.

The Dominions replied, it /is stated, that they refused to rcccfcnise the United , Kingdom's right iio demand restrictions. and no evidence was produced to prove that curtallgncnt of the Dominions' products would foad to better prices for Home farmers. /

They emphatically declined to accept a scheme providing a percentage of reductions, but it is expected that the council will arrive at /an agreement whereby Dominion exponas will be little effected during 1039.