WELL RECEIVED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21852, 24 October 1945, Page 3

WELL RECEIVED

MR. WILSON’S SPEECH FOOD ORGANISATION (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 24. Mr. D. Wilson’s opening statement at the inaugural meeting of the Food and Agricultural Organisation in Quebec has been the subject of much favourable comment by the delegates, states a report of the New Zealand delegation to the Minister of External Affairs. Significantly, it was one of the few delegation statements to receive prominent notice in the American press. The New York Times says the New Zealand delegation had introduced the first basic issue into the conference by assailing the practice of paying the farmers in any country not to grow food which the world needs. The Times said Mi-. Wilson had expressed publicly what many delegates and observers had been expressing privately, adding that the significance of Mr. Wilson’s statement was made even more apparent by the fact that it followed an observation by Mr. Clinton P. Anderson, United States Secretary of Agriculture and the United States delegate to the conference, that the United States now faced the task of readjusting agricultural production _ from the high levels achieved in wartime to the new world situation brought about by peace. When the opening plenary session of the conference concluded and two general commissions were established New Zealand was honoured by the election of Mr. Wilson, its delegation chairman, as vice-chairman of the commission, which is primarily concerned with formulating proposals and recommendations governing the F.A.O. policy and programme.