Tough line on grain urged

Press, 15 October 1986, Page 15

Tough line on grain urged

PA Dunedin Australia must be told that if it dumped wheat and flour in New Zealand and killed off this country’s grain-growing industry it would face retaliatory action, said the Opposition spokesman on agriculture, Mr John Falloon. “The strongest thing New Zealand can da. is to \tell Australia tfijg if it

starts dumping grain here then we’ll start looking at its free access for motor cars,” he said in Oamaru. The Government should be talking more effectively to the international marketplace, said Mr Falloon, adding that it should have sent a Cabinet Minister and not a member of Parliament, Ms Helen Clark, to Australia. recently to talk

bounties. Mr Falloon, on a national fact-finding tour' of the provinces with National’s meat and wool spokesman, Mr Denis Marshall, said that the South Canterbury-North Otago region was “clearly” in bigger strife than almost anywhere else in the country,” because of the climate and the reliance on cropping.