MR. LYONS WELCOMED

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1935, Page 5

MR. LYONS WELCOMED

MAINLY ABOUT MEAT.

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SYDNEY. August 12

The Prime Minister, Mr J. A. Lyons, was given a tumultuous reception here at a "welcome home luncheon given by the United Australia Parly to-day. Replying to the speeches, Mr Lyons said that it had been gratifying to find such wide approval in Australia of the short term meat agreement that had been reached in London. This agreement involved a substantial advance in the volume of the Commonwealth’s meat trade with the United Kingdom. Ho continued: "It would be to the advantage of the Empire if the British Government, in contemplating a renewal of the Argentine meat agreement with countries in a similar position to the Argentine, showed less concern for the foreign products and more concern for Great Britain and lor tin* Dominions like Australia. I recognise that the United Kingdom, in making the agreement with the Argentine, bad no intention of departing from the principle that was subscribed to at Ottawa.”

Mr Lyons described the agreement: which Britain concluded with the Ar-j genline as being the principle of thej Ottawa Agreement, ami he expressed: great conlidence that it would not be j renewed in its present form. He urged, that, at the earliest possible date, th*-[ i Australian meal producers should fol-' [low tlm example of the New Zealand ' meat producers, and should set up a small, but repim-mntat ive, Meat Export Control Board. TRADE WITH USA. i SYDNEY. August 12. • Tin* Sydnev '■Sun " says: Mr. Lyons ■ will propose to th* 1 Cabinet that AuItralia shall make dire, 1 represent at ion l -. Ito th** Unit ■<! States fora reduction of jits tariff barriers against Au-irtilian . products. [ Mr Lyons said thi- afternoon that ' ih'-ro is at th* l m*>m*-m a parti. u’arß ■ friendly .'ittitml* 1 Inwards Australia it: ■ the United States. FEDERAL PARLIAMENT I SY 1 >NEY. August 12. I After consulting his < olli-agties. Mr. 1 Lyons stated that tin* Fed*-ral I’arlia I irn-nt will m.wt on September 21