LONDON TRADE MISSION

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28252, 13 April 1957, Page 10

LONDON TRADE MISSION

Talks May Last Till May

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, April 11.

The New Zealand trade mission’s meat committee is to confer with British officials today on points arising out of statements made in plenary sessions by the leader of the mission, Mr K. J. Holyoake and British Cabinet Ministers. It is- the first of the committees to begin more intensive talks which will be confined to officials and representatives of producer boards.

No Ministers will be present, but other sections of the New Zealand mission will be represented as observers.

Two meetings with British officials to discuss the European common market and the free trade area have also been held. Mr Holyoake has accepted an invitation from Lord Brookeborough, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, to spend the Easter period with him in Belfast. The misison’s discussions may extend well into May. Simultaneous meetings of three commodity committees, meat, dairy produce and fruit, are unlikely because of interchanging of observers. As far as can be ascertained, talks so far have gone much as expected. Yesterday, Mr Holyoake conferred with the mission and also addressed a group of Conservative members of Parliament at the House of Commons and attended the annual dinner of the London Meat Traders and Drovers Benevolent Association at which Lord Cobham was one of the speakers.