MUTUAL PROBLEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 112, 14 May 1938, Page 9

MUTUAL PROBLEMS

AUSTRALIA AND N,Z. AGRICULTURAL FIELD COMMON APPROACH SUGGESTED (United Press Association—By Electric Tejegrapli—Copyright.) (Received May 14, 10 a.m.) CANBERRA, This Day. i The possibility of permanent Nev . Zealand representation on an Aus tralasian Agricultural Council in jorde: that both Dominions may meet mutua . problems on a common basis was mad< i at the Agricultural Council Confer . ence. r The suggestion came from Mr. E. J ■ Hogan, the Victorian Minister of Agri culture, who emphasised the value o: exchange of views between New Zea land and Australia, and was advancec after the conference had heard fron the New Zealand Minister of Agrlcul ture, Mr. W. Lee Martin, a helpful outline of New Zealand's marketinj methods. Replying to tentative Australian sug gestions that the (Council should meei in New Zealand at spnse future date ■ Mr. Martin gave an assurance that iJ such an eventuality occurred the Aus traiians would receive a warm wel come. Delegates generally expressed the view that the presence* of the New Zealand Minister, at the conference ha<3 been most helpful in the discussions, and at the termination of the confer ence, commended Mr. Martin for his co-operation and his useful contribution to the discussions. Delegates expressed admiration of New Zealand's marketing legislation as outlined by Mr. Martin and of New Zealand's ability to readily implement

its marketing policy. Even a change of Government would not cause the repeal of the marketing legislation, Mr. Martin confidently remarkedWhen Mr. F. W. Bulcock, the Queens* land Minister of Agriculture, remarked that guaranteed prices might in the future give the Reserve Bank some

headaches, Mr. Martin smilingly 'retorted that his Government would .not be worried by that. Mr. Martin said that the conference discussions had given him an insight into many Australian legislative difficulties inseparable from the Federal Constitution, with the six States still retaining legislative powers within their own territories. In the course of the conference Mr. Martin promised the assistance of the New Zealand Department of Agriculture in eliminating the export of inferior sheep to Australia., FRUIT EXPORT CO-OPERATION. Mr. Martin assured the conference that New Zealand would welcome the creation of authoritative bodies with which the Dominion could co-operate in regulating supplies of apples and pears on the United Kingdom nfarket in order to avoid alternate gluts and scarcities during the limited period in which Australian and New Zealand crops were marketed. . , The Australian .delegates to the conference evinced great interest in the constitution of the x New Zealand Fruit Export Board an£ district advisory councils and in the means employed to eliminate fruit of unsuitable character and size from export. VALUE OF PIG CLUBS. So impressed were the delegates with the outline by the New Zealand Director-General of Agriculture, Mr» A. H. Cockayne, of New Zealand's development of the pig industry by means of pig clubs, that the conference has arranged with the Australian Department of Commerce to obtain full particulars from New Zealand. This information will be circulated among producers in all the Australian States. In view#f the legislation enacted in Australia and New Zealand for the abolition of the draft allowance on wool, the conference recommended that this legislation be made effective from July 1.. Perth was fixed as the venue of the next conference. The wish was expressed that New Zealand would again be represented.