BUTTER QUOTA

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 51, 1 March 1934, Page 13

BUTTER QUOTA

SIR MONTAGUE BARLOWS VIEWS

v (By Telegraph) = -• (Special to the ''Evening Post") "3 DUJfEDDT, February 28. I' Reference to a -quota on. butter wa# "^ made by the Bt. Hon. Sir Montague .-!? Barlow in the course of an interview -.- today. Sir Montague, who i s spend- '-»•? ing a holiday in New Zealand, is a -1 former Minister of Labour in thW British Cabinet. . '. ;" . ;'";:-, Mr. Coates had put-the ease admir--••'; ably in the memorandum which, lie had -■ issued in,-May,; 1.033, m which he-had- '"" given figures showing the great in- ■ ■ crease in the imports of produce from - - New Zealand and Australia to England - " since the-days-before the Var, said "Sir Montague. The export of butter from. '"-'■ these two countries in 1913' had been ~ approximately, 40,000 tons, but in 1933- - it was in the vicinity of 240,000 tons,:- -: or: about six times as great as before '• the war. The result of this was bound: to be—as, in fact, it had been—that—the saturation point had been reached and the price of butter had fallen in a most disastrous way, both, for the •. Home farmer and the- New Zealand' -V farmer. \.; ■- - : .-..'• '*■-■*■ -• . Sir Montague-said he thought all- -.-- must agree that it wasr not only the- - right but the duty, of the British" Gov- '" eminent to give security to its own farmers above every other consideration. He hoped that it was fully re- • cognised that English farming -was in-' a very bad way. • In fact, it was no --■ exaggeration to, say that it was- in a, ■ i desperate- condition.-J The proof, of-that - was - that, independent -. as British! • - farmers were, they had with practical anammity accepted, severe restrictions ■-.-. as to output, etc., in several branches of agricultural/production,: such-/ as -, milk and pig meat. , v . ." -, The necessity for protecting .'the ••;. British farming industry was most utj * gent,, and-that was a "factor .whictt -^ would have,to be recognised when th<|^ • " Ottawa Agreement,canw Jo.Jbl.sb^.j/-;-