OUT OF HIS TURN

Grey River Argus, 8 October 1934, Page 7

OUT OF HIS TURN

MR. D. JONES’S SLAP AT CANADA (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON. October 6. “Mr Jones has no credentials to speak on behalf ’of the New Zealand Government at all/' said rhe Minister of Finance (the Bt. TTon. J. G. Coates) to-day, when commenting on the cabled statement attributing Mr David Jones, chairman of the Mealf Board, w*i»th say ing that New Zealand was- getting tir ed of the way in which Canada was carrying on. Mr .Tones said to Vancouver pressmen: “Unless the spirit .of the Ottawa Agreement is more liberally interpreted in this country, it will not be long before we wil] be- compelled to adopt measures which will be more to our ad* vantage.’* « T.t waf» difficult to understand the f'ah’ed reference to 'the- spiriit of Ottawa., said Mr Coates, since New Zealand had made no Ottawa agreement w'ith Canada. Mr Coates said that if the statements attributed to- Mr Jones were correct his (Mr Coates’s) comment was that he did not represent the views of the

New Zealand Government. “He is going Home to take part in the negotiations with Grca»t Britain over the meat export proposals as expert adviser to Sir James Parr. who, will represent the Government,’’ he said. He suggested that Mr Jones might

I have been calking »s chairman of the Meat Board when he referred to *the interpretation of the Ottawa Agreement. a.<» the board had been attempting to get beef into Canada. Th«-rp was a possibility, too, that the cablegram might have been in transit.