BRITISH MARKET

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 21, 25 July 1933, Page 9

BRITISH MARKET

HOME FARMERS FIRST

BALDWIN'S ASSURANCE

DUMPING BY DOMINIONS

OUTSPOKEN CRITICISM

(Special to United Press Association New, /Zealand.) (Received July 25, 10 a.m.) j LONDON, July 24 Mr. Stanley Baldwin's statement to 15,000 Eastern Counties' Conservatives, that the interests of Britain's farmers come first, those of the Dominions' farmers second, and those of foreign farmers third, and that in Major Elliot British agriculture had a fairy prince, is interpreted to mean the strongest political support to the policy of restriction of produce im« ports, including butter. Mr. Baldwin also said that England was a long way from having reached the production in agriculture of which it was capable. It had hardly scratched the surface as far as small holdings were concerned, but this question must wait until at least they had succeeded in showing that those who were now working on the land had a better chance than they had had at any time in the last generation. The "Plymouth Morning News'* says: "Dumping is dumping, no matter who does it, and, as the Dominions were pointedly reminded in a recent Parliamentary debate, there is a world of difference between acting in the spirit of agreement* and in strict adherence to their letter."