TRADE BARRIERS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 32, 1 November 1929, Page 11

TRADE BARRIERS

ATTITUDE OF NEW ZEALAND FARMERS DIFFICULTIES OF AUSTRALIANS EXPERIENCES OF HON. A. D. McLEOD (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Sydney, October 31. The Hon. A. D. McLeod, former Minister of Commerce and Industry in the New Zealand Government, who has arrived from England, in an interview, said that he regretted the scarcity of New Zealand news in the Australian Press, particularly in regard t> trade matters, upon which there were many .misunderstandings. He added that month’s association on an ocean liner with a number of Australian traders and farmers convinced him that the belief was prevalent that New Zealand was the criminal so far as trade barriers were concerned, whereas greater publicity would show that the New Zealand primary producers had a wider appreciation of the farmers’ difficulties in Australia than was the case the other way about. AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA OTHER DOMINIONS TO BE INVITED ’ Cape Town, October 30. The Orange Free State delegates at the Agricultural Congress moved that the Union communicate with similar organisations in the Dominions inviting them tc a conference in South Africa in 1931, with the object of closer co-operation agriculturally. DECLINE IN BRITAIN’S WHEAT ACREAGE London, October 30. In the House of Commons, Sir Harry Newton (C.) said that within the past ten years Britain’s wheat acreage had declined 280,000,000, of which 45 per cent, was within the Empire, producing far more than the Empire’s needs. Britain’s wheat growers led the world both in yield and quality.