BRITISH FOOD MISSION

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23882, 26 February 1943, Page 4

BRITISH FOOD MISSION

VISIT TO N.Z.

DEHYDRATION PLANTS PLANNED

(P.A.) AUCKLAND, February 25. Heading the British Government Food Mission in Australia and New Zealand, Mr W. Bankes Amery, principal assistant-secretary to the Ministry of Food, has arrived in the Dominion. The mission, comprising Messrs Amery and R. C. Hintqn, left England last October, intending to come to New Zealand by way of America. Shipping delays, however, necessitated a first call to Australia, which was reached some weeks ago. Mr Hinton is still in Melbourne. The main work of the mission, Mr Emery said, was to hold discussions with officials of both countries about the sale and export of foodstuffs to Britain. They would also be largely concerned with the establishment of dehydration plants for meat and butter. . .

Matters with which the mission was concerned had previously been negotiated by correspondence, he 'said. but the Government i.ad thought it wiser to have men on the spot who were fully posted with the state of affairs on both sides of the world. With Mr Hinton. Mr Amery said he would remain in Australia and New Zealand until the end of the war. He left tonight for Wellington, where he will meet the High Commissioner tor the United Kingdom <Sir Harry Batterbee).