THE REAL PROBLEM

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 278, 19 August 1932, Page 11

THE REAL PROBLEM

Monetary Return for Products MR. H. D. ACLAND’S VIEWS By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, August 18. Mr. H. D. Acland, president of the New Zealand Sheepowners’ Federation, interviewed with regard to the question of the quota on meat which is being discussed at Ottawa, said that the Views of his federation were quite well known on the matter. They held that a quota was dangerous in principle, and that if once applied to foreign meat it was only a matter of time before Great Britain applied it to New Zealand meat. From the cabled messages it appeared to him possible that there was some danger of New Zealand Interests being sacrificed for tho benefit of Australian Interests. Mr. Acland said he did not think a quota on chilled Argentine beef would have much effect on New Zealand lamb. There was also a possibility of the real advantages of preference being sacrificed to the theory of the quota. “We must face the fact that Great Britain has enormous financial interests in Argentina,” Mr. Acland added, “and is not likely therefore to injure her own financial Interests for the sake of New Zealand and Australia. The real problem for solution is not a quota or preference, but a monetary one. An increase in the monetary price for New Zealand’s primary products—wool, meat and butter—is what we want.”