EMPIRE FOODS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18725, 23 June 1926, Page 18

EMPIRE FOODS.

SUPERIOR GOODS WANTED. AN AUSTRALIAN SCHEME. (BT CABLE—PRESS ABSOCUTIOS—COPCTIGHT.) (AUSTBALIAH AKD N-X. CABM ASSOCIATION.) (Eeceived June 22nd; 8.15 p.m.) LONDON, June 22. Mr W. F. Dunn, on behalf of the stock owners of Australia,- submitted to Mr L. C. 31. S. Amery a plan that importers of pedigree poultry and stock, except sheep, from Britain should pay only the purchase price, the Imperial, Commonwealth and State Governments equally sharing the cost of any freight and. insurance. The object of the scheme is to provide for the most superior Empire foods possible in opposition , to. those coming from the Argentine and the United States. ' . _ - ■ Mr Amery has' promised. his sympathetic consideration of the scheme. Three British-Australian- shipping lines have promised Mr Dunn favourably to consider the free carriage of pedigree stock, provided they were indemnified against outlay for feeding and housing, during transportation. Mr Dunn addressed a group of the Labour members of the House of Commons on Empire trade, insisting that the sentiment of the bonds of Empire was invaluable to a certain point, but was valueless unless supplemented by material interests, such as cheaper food and raw materials which might be received from the Dominions, notably from Australia.