N.Z. May Help Fill Aust. Butter Quota
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) CANBERRA, December 25. The Australian Prime Minister (Mr McEwen) today revealed that New Zealand might take up the deficit in Australia’s dairy exports to Britain this year.
He said this point had been raised in discussions with Mr Holyoake when he was in Canberra last week. Australia had a quota of 74.700 tons of butter for the British market this year, but the drought is expected to keep shipments down to about 65,000 tons. Mr McEwen said he would be glad if New Zealand could make up the difference in the event of Australia not filling its quota.
However, Mr McEwen rejected a suggestion that Australia might buy butter from New Zealand.
He was referring to a report which quoted the New Zealand Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake) as saying that Australia might make the imports because of the drought. “Nothwithstanding the drought, and notwithstanding any restructuring of Australia’s dairying industry, Aus-
tralia would still be an important exporter of butter and certainly would not be prepared to import butter,” Mr McEwen said. “This has been a basic point in the Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement.”
[Mr Holyoake, Page 3]
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31561, 26 December 1967, Page 1
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