MEAT CONSULTATIONS

Evening Post, Issue 50, 27 August 1935, Page 10

MEAT CONSULTATIONS

NEW ZEALAND'S LEADERS

TRIBUTE BY MR. T. A, DUNCAN

(By Telegraph.-]'i-ess A^sociatiou.l

AUCKLAND, August 26.

A tribute to the work of the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates and the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes at the meat consultations in London was paid by Mr.T.A.Duncan, chairman of the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board.: who returned by the New Zealand Star after attending the discussions in an advisory capacity.

"It was absolutely necessary that the leaders of the Government should have been present at the negotiations." said Mr. Duncan. "Both Mr. Coates and Mr. Forbes can appreciate the farmers' difficulties, and ■ they were able to watch carefully the interests of Dominion producers and to conclude an agreement very astisfactory to the Dominion."

Mr. Duncan was accompanied to England by Mr. J. Fraser, general manager of the board. Mr. Fraser. will return to the Dominion in about threeweeks, having delayed his departure in order to study distribution and marketing arrangements in the English provinces.

Mr. Duncan left Auckland for Hunterville, and he will attend the annual meeting of the board, which opens at Wellington on Thursday.

The allocations arranged for New Zealand were very satisfactory in the circumstances, Mr. Duncan said. The political air in Great Britain was full of talk of levies, and-how far New Zealand would be affected in the future it was hard to say. Britain was undergoing a change in its trade policy. The old Free Trade idea was passing, and its'place was being taken by Protection.

Mr. Duncan said the regularity- of New Zealand's meat supplies gave the Dominion a great advantage .over its main competitors, Empire and foreign. One aim of the Meat Board was to keep the name "New Zealand" prominently before the consuming public,' and less attention- was now being given to provincial names, such as "Canterbury." . " ■ :