BRITISH MEAT IMPORTS

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21197, 22 June 1934, Page 11

BRITISH MEAT IMPORTS

—« — | i OTTAWA AGREEMENTS j | ALMOST ENDED ! DOUBTS ABOUT FUTURE j (UNITED "PRXSS ASSOCIATION —HT ELECJUIO telegraph—COP YUIGUT.) (Received June 21, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 20. j With only 10 days before the j j Ottawa meat arrangements expire j the British Cabinet is apparently j without a plan to regulate beef im-! ports after June 30. There is obviously no intention of letting the scheme lapse at the risk of chaotic marketing, and presumably an arrangement will be made temporarily to continue the existing schedules until Mr W. E. Elliot, Minister for Agriculture, and the Board of Trade are ready with new proposals. Mr's. M. Bruce, Australian High Commissioner, and Mr J. li. Thomas, Secretary of State for the Dominions, conferred at length, not specifically about the Ottawa agreements, but on the broader aspect ol world marketing, specially of meat. Mr Bruce outlined the situation as he saw it from his Australian and New Zealand discussions. The "Sun-Herald" news service understands that Mr Thomas favoured an earlv conference m England with Dominion representatives, but Mr Bruce was not enthusiastic about a formal meeting. lie prefers to meet members of the British Cabinet separately, not particularly in an-official capacity, but more as an observer who has studied the siluation in each Dominion. The great problem facing England and the Dominions is the imminence of chilled beef exports. It is unlikely that Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa will greatly increase their total meat exports immediately, because their chilled beef will largely take the place of their present frozen supplies, but Rhodesia and South Africa would sdnd quantities chilled beef not already coming here. [Mr David Jones, chairman of the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board, believes that a conference between Great Britain and Dominion representatives will take place at an early date. The conference, he said, last night, had probably been delayed until Mr Bruce arrived in London.l EFFECT OF RUSSIAN BUTTER IMPORTS CONSERVATIVES URGE ACTION LONDON, June 20. I In view of what they say is the harmful effect of Russian butter production the Conservative Parliamentary Agricultural Committee sent a deputation to Lieutenant Colonel D. J. Colville, Parliamentary Secretary for Overseas Trade, urging the invoking of Article 2 of the Anglo-Russian Trade Treaty, which provides the means of dealing with methods calculated to frustrate preferences or injure home production.—"The Times cable.