Processing in N.Z. urged
PA Wellington New Zealand could earn an extra SBOOM a year in overseas exchange by processing wool and lamb here, Labour’s spokesman on agriculture, Mr B. G. Barclay (Christchurch Central) told Parliament. “There needs to be a lot more processing of our primary products in New Zealand,” he said, in the Ad'kess-in-Reply debate. Processing wool to at least the yarn stage would earn an additional S6OOM and processing lamb before it was exported would mean an extra S2OOM. Mr Barclay said the Minister of Overseas Trade (Mr Taiboys) was doing nothing about increasing the amount of processing done for oversees markets. AU he was doing was going round putting out fires started by the Prime Minister (Mr Muldoon).
Mr Barclay said the National Government had failed the farmers. Mr D. M. J. Jones (Nat., Waitemata) said Mr Barclay, in advocating processing of lamb in New Zealand, was overlooking the fact that 30,000 British butchers were dependent on New Zealand carcases, according to the Meat Board.
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