TWO-WAY TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 103, 3 May 1945, Page 9

TWO-WAY TRADE

NEW ZEALAND'S WELFARE

P.A. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 2. The development of what he described as "uneconomic secondary industries" at the possible expense of the Dominion's- primary produce export trade was criticised by Mr. A. Linton, ward member on the New Zealand Dairy Board, at the ward conference at Stratford today. Farmers felt, he said, that intra-Empire trade should, be fostered and the establishment of uneconomic secondary industries must have repercussions on the primary industries of New Zealand. The Dominion's future prosperity was bound up to two-way trade with Great Britain and the dairy industry in particular was taken up with trade prospects with [Britain.

He did not intend bringing in politics, said Mr. Linton, but he urged that it was the responsibility of the farmers to do everything to ensure that the primaz-y produce export trade should not be sacrificed to secondary industries which could supply New Zealand only with an inferior • article at high cost. The future of the dairy industry was seriously, concerned. The following resolution was unanimously carried: "That this ward conference, feeling that the British market is a matter of life and death to New Zealand, and that the present undue fostering and protection of local secondary industries is prejudicial to the country's best interests, asks the Dairy Board to confer-with the Meat Producers' Board and word a suitable remit for consideration at the Dominion conference and subsequent presen--1 tation to the Government."