N.Z. MEAT EXPORTS

Grey River Argus, 20 September 1932, Page 3

N.Z. MEAT EXPORTS

LIMITATION DENIED Are Estimates a Check ? MR COATES’S STATEMENT. (Per Press WELLINGTON, September 19. Particulars of New Zealand’s agreement with the United Kingdom to provide an estimate of New Zealand’s meat exports at the beginning of each I season were released for publication by J Mr Coates to-day. The Dominion has undertaken to keep to annual export estimates. This part of her meat agreement differs from that of Australia, which has agreed to limit her exports during the calender year 1933 to the same volume as her exports during the year ended June 30, 1932. It is also stated officially that the general form of New Zealand’s meat agreement differs from Australia’s. Details of the Dominion’s meat agreement were contained in a letter written by Air Coates to Mr Baldwin the day before the Ottawa Conference I closed. Its purport has already been | published in New Zealand, but the doc- ; unient now released does not contain certain paragraphs dealing with the ' prescription of a minimum reduction to be effected in the United Kingdom imports of certain foreign meats, concerning which Britain has yet to nego- | tiate with other countries, to assist in • the orderly marketing of supplies. | The letter says: “The Dominion ' will give a reliable estimate of her ■ shipments of mutton and lamb as early as possible in each export season. This ! season will necessarily cover the period from October Ist in one year to ' September 30th in the following yea l *. • Fur the season 1932-1933 we estimate > our exports of frozen mutton and i lambs at 200,000 tons, with five per . cent, increase in each of the follow- ' ing two years. For the calendar yeai 1 1933, you may take it that our shipments of frozen mutton and lamb will j be the same as those of the twelve • months ended June 30, 1932; that is iof the year which ended with the 1 month immediately preceding opening of the conference. It is understood in consideration of this undertaking that no restriction will be placed by Britain upon the importation of any meat from New Zealand during the period ending June 30. 1934.’’