CAMPAIGN FOR QUOTAS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20909, 17 July 1933, Page 9

CAMPAIGN FOR QUOTAS.

BRITISH ATTITUDE. REVIVING HOME PRODUCTION. INSISTENCE ON NEED FOR REGULATION. (VKITED PRESS ASSOCIATION'—T.Y ELECTEIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.) (Received July 16, 8.36 p.m.) LONDON, July 15. The Empire delegates to the World Economic Conference will reassemble next week to discuss the regulation of dominions' foodstuffs. The British continue to urge voluntary quotas to replace duties, citing the effects of the Ottawa Conference, by which meat prices had risen under quotas, while butter had fallen under duties. Evidently the British consider that some of the Dominion delegates are convinced that gluts have a chaotic effect on prices, but cannot impress the Dominion Governments and farmers, whose remoteness geographically prevents appreciation of the facts. The New Zealand cables were read with interest, especially because the farmers' hostility to regulation contrasts with the pamphlet I written by the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates; but their attitude, it is considered, will probably prevent the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes from committing his Government to regulation. The British insist that the dominions' failure to co-operate will be equally disastrous to Home and dominion farmers, probably necessitating substantial revisions of the Ottawa meat and dairy products agreements. The movement to terminate the Economic Conference has brought the regulation of dairy products within its ambit, but Mr S. M. Bruce (Australia) declines to participate in the discussions pending Monday's meeting between Great Britain and the dominions.

Great significance for the dominions' export outlook when the Ottawa agreements terminate attaches to Mr W. E. Elliot's speech to the economic commission declaring that Great Britain intends to embark on a comprehensive policy of reviving British agriculture, ultimately affecting the dominions.