“NO IMMEDIATE INVITATION”
VISIT TO SOUTHERN DOMINIONS FOOD MINISTER’S REPLY TO QUESTION LONDON, May 6. “I have had tto immediate invitation,” answered the Minister of Food (Mt John Strachey) at a pteM conference, when he was asked whether there was any chance of his going to Australia or New Zealand to investigate the possibilities of increasing food supplies to Britain. Mr Strachey added: “I would like to go to the southern Dominions very much indeed, but whenever ! may go there I would not like it suggested that arty such visit was a criticism of what was being done there. If I were« able to go there, it would be entirely in a spirit of possibly advising a method by which we could increase food production to our mutual benefit.” Mr Strachey said he thought that the meat shortage tvould be at Its worst in the second half ot this year. He added, regarding fruit imports from New Zealand, that there were certain seasons of the year when there were limits to the refrigerated tonnage to carry produce from the southern Dominions. and if Britain had to choose between meat and fruit. She must choose meat. “The slow tum-round of ships in the southern Dominions has ibeen a great difficulty.” he said.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25178, 8 May 1947, Page 7
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