CRISIS IN BRITAIN Producer Boards’ Attitude
t.vew Zealand Free* Astociation) WELLINGTON, August 9. The chairman of the Dairy Board (Sir Andrew Linton) said that the producer boards would probably comply with a request from the British Government to keep prices steady to help the British economic situation.
Last week the British Minister of Agriculture (Mr Peart) stressed the seriousness of the British economic situation in meetings in Lon-
don with representatives of Australian and New Zealand producer boards. A Meat Board official said today that no indication of price control of meat in Britain had been received. Trade circles believed, however, that it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible to hold down meat prices under the free trading j system operating in Britain. The general secretary of i Federated Farmers (Mr J. G. Pryde) said that section ; council meetings of the (federation would consider the ‘question at the end of the ’ month.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31134, 10 August 1966, Page 9
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