LEVY OPPOSED

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 88, 13 April 1935, Page 20

LEVY OPPOSED

MEAT EXPORT PROBLEM

REGULATION PREFERRED

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 12.

New Zealand-owned freezing companies operating in the South Island have sent the following telegram to the Minister of Finance (the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates): —

"At a meeting held yesterday of the undersigned companies, representative of all New Zealand-owned freezing companies in the South Island, the following resolution- was unanimously adopted for transmission to; yourself: 'That this meeting of New Zealandowned freezing companies, represent ing thousands of shareholders and pro^ ducers,. strongly .urges upon the Government the importance of resisting any attempt to introduce the application of a levy on New Zealand meat imported into the United Kingdom. We are convinced that the regulation of imports-as agreed to at the Ottawa

Conference has been of the utmost value to New Zealand producers in protecting them against an unlimited expansion of exports from other competing companies and the disastrous fall in prices which would have resulted. The improved prices . which have ruled for mutton and lamb since the restrictions were imposed under the Ottawa Agreement are the best evidence of ; the benefit which has accrued to New Zealand. We are convinced that the abandonment of the regulation of imports in favour of a levy will result in the English market being flooded with supplies. In other words, it will result in its becoming the dumping ground for the world's exportable surplus with a resulting collapse in prices, the effect of which would ■be intensified by the introduction of a levy for the reason thatr~in the long run, the cost of the levy would fall upon the producers.'"

A small device 'Which enables a physician to magnify- the sound- -of the human heart 100 times and to tune ; in on the particular heart sounds he wishes to hear, has been developed, making use of two new type vacuum tubes each the size of a peanut. The device was first produced to aid a medical student whose poor hearing prevented him from using a stethoscope. ■