"AUSTRALIA WILL BE THERE"
The significance of Mr. Bruce's statement at the inter-State Premiers' Conference should not be overlooked by those responsible for framing an export policy for New Zealand. The Australian High Commissioner stated the alternatives for Australian and New Zealand butter producers: either stand fast on Ottawa rights for fifteen months, with resultant intensification of competition followed by restriction,, or enter into a standstill agreement with Great Britain covering one or two years. Mr. Bruce's remarks, read with his speech to the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce, leave no doubt as to the advice he gives. He counsels a voluntary arrangement with Great1 Britain as the way to a better bargain than is likely to follow if we wait till Britain can impose restrictions. It is true that the keynote of the frank interchange of views which followed Mr. Bruce's statement was hostility to the restriction of exports; but we may not place too much reliance on that. Mr. Bruce has seen the way British policy and world policy are tending, and he advises Australia and New- Zealand to get in early in fixing their quota for the British market If New Zealand hesitates/ too long she may be the only country standing out. • , . . ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 95, 23 April 1934, Page 8
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