A LEVY ON BRITISH DAIRY IMPORTS?

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 50, 28 February 1934, Page 8

A LEVY ON BRITISH DAIRY IMPORTS?

Naval limitations, and Ottawa agreements not to limit, expire in the same year, 1935. In that year, therefore, Britain will be considering what defence price she must pay to protect imported food, and. to what extent she shall reduce the imported food itself, and grow her own food.' Unless, then, the Dominions agree to an earlier revision of Ottawa, Important decisions must be made in 1935. Of the Ottawa agreements, New Zealand is for the moment most concerned in dairying!- Under the .British Milk Marketing Board, British suppliers of whole milk were paid on the average pergallon 13Jd in October and 14d in November, but; for the milk surplus devoted; to cheese the best price procurable was 3d to 3^d, because of the low.prices of imported cheese. ■ "Vigilans," ;; who quotes these figures in the "Sydney Morning Herald," adds that Mr. Thomas Baxter recently told the National Farmers' Union that; money to compensate the^3d-340! farmers could be obtained by placing a levy on all imported dairy produce, and that Mr. Elliot agreed with him as to the feasibility of this. On the important question whether the British Labour Party will champion the British consumers against the Conservative agrarian; policy "Vigilans" is negative. He even suggests that Labour will outbid Conservatism for the farmers'vote. ' '.